diskstats - sectors written, what does it mean for mmc-cards?

From: Clemens Eisserer
Date: Wed May 12 2010 - 11:20:29 EST


Hi,

I have a small arm based server running enterly from an mmc-card.
To get some glue how much the mmc-card is written to, I had a look at
diskstat, which, after 9 days uptime, looks like:

254 0 mmcblk0 87047 34549 2851200 3081695 483009 484000 7736450
30472168 0 5847544 51650
254 1 mmcblk0p1 63356 2037674 920699 7365592
254 2 mmcblk0p2 58214 813270 46364 370858

So, to mmcblk0 7736450 sectors have been written, and the kernel had
to wait 5,7h for the writes to complete.
But how can I find out how large a sector is?

If I assume its 512 bytes, that would mean 3,8gb have been written to
that card in the last few days, which seems quite a lot.

Thanks, Clemens
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