The Old New Thing

Computing the size of a directory is more than just adding file sizes

December 28, 2004 Dec 28, 2004 12/28/04

Raymond Chen

One might think that computing the size of a directory would be a simple matter of adding up the sizes of all the files in it. Oh if it were only that simple. There are many things that make computing the size of a directory difficult, some of which even throw into doubt the even existence of the concept "size of a directory". Reparse ...