On Thursday, December 07, 2006 @ 4:08 PM, Felix Miata wrote: >On 2006/12/07 15:58 (GMT-0600) Greg Wallace apparently typed:
>> Some time back, I used Partition Magic to format a device and I would swear >> I was able to specify 4096 as a block size. I split the device into two >> partitions and made one of them NTFS and the other EXT2. I can't remember >> for sure, but I sort of think it was on the NTFS partition that I used the >> 4096, but maybe it was both of them. >4096 is the 8 sector cluster size (minimum space used by one file) used >in that case by the operating system's format utility. Turns out that's the same block size being used on my SuSE drives. I keyed in -- Blockdev --getbsz /dev/hda and got back 4096. Greg Wallace -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
