Jim B wrote: > > What command can I use to find out my drives' cluster size? I know I can > specify what I want to use when I [c]fdisk, and that the default is 2 KB I > think... but I would still like to know how I can find this information out. > There must be some program that will tell me this... no? >
For Linux e2fs partitions, the command 'mke2fs' is used to format the partition and optionally set the block size using the -b block-size option. The block size for e2fs is basically the equivalent to the FAT file system's cluster size. The default is 1024 bytes, at least for the partition sizes I use. See man mke2fs or man mkfs.ext2 You can use a utility like dumpe2fs (from the e2fsprogs package) to dump information about the e2fs file system on any particular partition into a text file like this... dumpe2fs /dev/hda1 > hda1.txt ...and view it in a text editor. It will display much information including the block size. See man dumpe2fs Tom
