Re: Block devices with other that 512 byte/block

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 20 Jul 1999 09:44:05 +0100 (BST)

> than 512 bytes per block/hardsector. In the 2.2.10 Kernel I still see the
> ">>9" operands, which indicate to me, that this one does not support larger
> blocks.

It doesn't support _smaller_ blocks. Larger blocks are supported. My M/O is
2048 byte block for example and fdisk -b 2048 / mke2fs -b 2048 works just fine
on it giving me a working ext2 fs. FAT also work

Alan

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