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In MacOS, the reported disk usage for a directory is sometimes reported as zero e.g.

$ du /etc
0   /etc

But, how is it possible to store any directory content without any blocks?

fatdragon
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Check if /etc is an actual directory or symbolic link. 

ls -al /etc

Demo:

renegade@Renegade:~$ du test
28  test
renegade@Renegade:~$ ln -s test my_link_test
renegade@Renegade:~$ du my_link_test
0   my_link_test
renegade@Renegade:~$ ls -ltr my_link_test
lrwxrwxrwx 1 renegade renegade 4 Mar 12 06:56 my_link_test -> test
renegade@Renegade:~$
Digvijay S
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