On 07/16/2014 02:41 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > This new Toshiba 2T drive doesn't expose its "block" size to the user, but > I suspect its 4192 if not bigger. Use fdisk with caution, but it will tell you the low-level format info on a hard drive. For instance, sudo fdisk /dev/sda then type "p" immediately shows this for my drive:
Disk /dev/sda: 128.0 GB, 128035676160 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 15566 cylinders, total 250069680 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x000de89c Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 2048 241963007 120980480 83 Linux /dev/sda2 241965054 250068991 4051969 5 Extended /dev/sda5 241965056 250068991 4051968 82 Linux swap / Solaris Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Want fast and easy access to all the code in your enterprise? Index and search up to 200,000 lines of code with a free copy of Black Duck Code Sight - the same software that powers the world's largest code search on Ohloh, the Black Duck Open Hub! Try it now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bds _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users