Re: [newbie] How big is a block ?

2005-03-23 Thread David E. Fox
On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 13:11:57 - Ken Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So if i want a user to have 130Mb do i set 133120 blocks or 13 blocks ? 1024. There may be some overhead. But you can just allocate 13 and he'll come back to tell you he's got a little bit more than you gave him.

[newbie] How big is a block ?

2005-03-18 Thread Ken Walker
Is a Linux block 1000 bytes or 1024 bytes. If i give a user 130,000 blocks of quota space, windows reports it as 126 Meg So if i want a user to have 130Mb do i set 133120 blocks or 13 blocks ? Or is windows wrong again. Many thanks Ken