Block Size Program

david nicol whatever at davidnicol.com
Sat Jul 6 17:13:03 CDT 2002


DCT Jared Smith wrote:

> There are 512 bytes to a block. You can do the math in
> your head after the first coupla times, because 1K is
> two blocks.
> 
> The problem comes in the way that a 12 byte file will
> appear in Windows as a 1Kb file, because Windows won't
> measure in less than 1K increments.

du and df both have command line switches to alter their
display block sizes, too.

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