Re: set blksize of block device

From: Jon Masters
Date: Mon Nov 01 2004 - 09:03:57 EST


On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 23:34:08 -0400, Bijoy Thomas <bijoyjth@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> You set the blocksize for block device when you format it.

Just to clear this up for the archives, it's worth explaining the
difference between the various block sizes mentioned - the poster was
referring to hardware block size (e.g. sector size on a hard disk) and
not to the size used within a particular filesystem.

Jon.
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