I am experiencing some confusion over blocks in Linux. In one document, http://www.europe.redhat.com/documentation/mini-HOWTO/Partition/recovering.php3 it shows that blocks are based on disk geometry including heads and sectors.
When I run df I see a reference to 1K blocks. Linux reports disk performance using blocks/sec in most cases rather than the more familiar MB/s. Try running "df" or "iostat" and looking at the results. The man page for SAR reports that with -b that "A transfer is of indeterminate size." With the -d switch are told that "A block is of indeterminate size." Here are my questions... Are the blocks mentioned in df different from blocks related to disk geometry? How and why in df would you change or set the block size? How do I find out definitivly what the actual size is in blocks or MBs? Thanks, Robert __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
