On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 11:22 AM, Kapil Hari Paranjape
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> If the block device block size is what you want then the command is
>
>        blockdev --getsize64 /dev/hda1
>
> Here the answer is also in bytes for the device /dev/hda1. Note that
> block-devices usually (always?) work with a sector size of 512-bytes.

Did you mean blockdev --getbsz /dev/hda1 ?

Here is another trick.  Don't know if it will always work.

echo "a" > test
du -h test

regards,
Prasanna David
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