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Refining Core Development Skills
Refining Core Development Skills
Apr 20, 2020 · Fundamentals

How Much Disk Space Does a 1-Byte File Actually Occupy?

A file containing just one byte still consumes 4KB of disk space due to filesystem block allocation, plus inode and directory overhead.

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How Much Disk Space Does a 1-Byte File Actually Occupy?