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In computing, file size is a metaphor for the amount of disk space a given file requires in order to be stored locally. The unit most commonly used to measure file size is expressed using bytes. File has several meanings: Computer file File (tool) file (Unix), a program used to determine file types. ... This article refers to the unit of binary information. ...
In addition, all of the subroutines that deal with filesizes or file offsets are redefined to be their large-file enabled counterparts.
Application programs that imbed file offsets or sizes in data structures may be affected by the change to the size of the off_t in the large-file environment.
The maximum size of a file is ultimately a characteristic of the file system itself, not just the filesize limit or the environment.
On a Macintosh computer, the filesizes you see in the finder aren't the size of the file, but are actually the number of bytes being taken up on a particular disk by the file.
Each file on a disk (Mac or PC) occupies one or more allocation units; the exact number depends on the the filesize and the disk's allocation unit size.
The size of the file we are getting information about in this example (located next to the size on disk) is 32,099 bytes, or roughly 32K (really 31K and some change).
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