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Please indicate the meaning of block sizes in filesystem information
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stat -f provides information on the filesystem, including block sizes:
> Block size: 4096 Fundamental block size: 4096
The unit used in unfortunately not specified. Considering the fdisk output I get...
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
... I guess bits are the unit.
Note that the first measure ("Block size") is quite ambiguous. http://www.hitachi.co.jp/Prod/comp/soft1/manual/jp1en/d3R4900e/PCAU0135.HTM has some block size terminology which might help (if that's indeed the type of block we mean):
> The basic block size (FFBS: Fundamental Filesystem Block Size) used in the field table of this record is the allocation unit used during file system creation. The number of blocks that corresponds to the basic block size is called the /basic block count/. The logical block size (PFBS: Preferred Filesystem Block Size) is the allocation unit used during input/output operations. The number of blocks that corresponds to the logical block size is called the /logical block count/.
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On 08/09/2013 05:35 AM, Filipus Klutiero wrote:
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> stat -f provides information on the filesystem, including block sizes:
>> Block size: 4096 Fundamental block size: 4096
> The unit used in unfortunately not specified. Considering the fdisk output I get...
>> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
>> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> ... I guess bits are the unit.
always bytes
There are generally 3 layers of block sizes between the file system and device:
1. physical defined by the hardware device
2. logical the smallest addressable unit used for the device
3. file system ditto for the file system
So your numbers above are not the same item being represented.
They're all in bytes and represent different values 1,2,3 above
thanks,
Pádraig.
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