On Sat, 2006-04-15 at 15:54 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 12:27:35PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > >> On Sat, 2006-04-15 at 06:30 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> > >>> On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 10:25:28AM +0100, Wulfy wrote: > >>> (snip) > >>> because the sizes are measured in blocks originally, and a block is 1024 > >>> bytes, which is one KiB but 1.024 KB. > >>> > >> Sectors are 512 bytes, and blocks (on hard disks) are typically > >> 4096 bytes (but that's determined when you format the partition, > >> and is determined at run-time). > >> > > > > But I believe the common filesystems use 1024-byte blocks anyway. > > At least space measurements seem to be done in blocks. > > lthough a few years ago I recall that both 512- and 1024 blocks were in > > use -- very confusing. > > > Block sizes for several common file systems (ext2, ntfs, fat32) use > blocks whose sizes are multiples of 512 or 1024. 4096 is common for a > reasonable sized partitions.
And of course it always depends on disk capacity... A floppy drive has a 512 byte block, and MS-DOS formatted *old* HDDs with a 1024 byte sector size. > Powers of two are fairly obvious from a > hardware point of view. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA "Oh, great altar of passive entertainment, bestow upon me thy discordant images at such speed as to render linear thought impossible" Calvin, regarding TV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
