Block Size Program

Jonathan Hutchins hutchins at opus1.com
Sat Jul 6 23:58:05 CDT 2002


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gerald Combs [mailto:gerald at ethereal.com]

> Odd.  On my Linux desktop, the man page for 'ls' states that 
> the '-s' flag shows sizes in blocks.  

I'm not sure who got the VMS filespec mixed in here, but the various version
of Linux I have installed all user 1K blocks.  VMS still uses 512 Byte
blocks, hence your storage looks twice as big as it really is.




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