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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.uio.no!news.cais.net!bofh.dot!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!info.ucla.edu!nnrp.info.ucla.edu!usenet From: Hook Hua <hookh@ucla.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: re: FreeBSD File System 512 byte-blocks --> 1024 byte-blocks Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 01:16:51 -0700 Organization: UCLA Lines: 11 Message-ID: <31AD5973.7D95@ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: ts36-13.wla.ts.ucla.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win95; I) I was installing FreeBSD 2.1 several times trying to get things right and I noticed that on my last install, the df command would return file system block sizes of 512 bytes. All of my previous installs were of 1024 byte blocks. I always used the auto feature during the partition. Does anyone know why it changed? And is it possible to change the block size back to 1024bytes w/o reinstalling FreeBSD? ...what gives? Any suggestions would be appreciated. Hook Hua