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From: dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie (David Malone)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD File System 512 byte-blocks --> 1024 byte-blocks
Date: 31 May 1996 07:53:33 +0100
Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
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james@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard) writes:

>In article <31AD5973.7D95@ucla.edu>, Hook Hua  <hookh@ucla.edu> wrote:

>>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?

>Fortunately you don't need to re-install FreeBSD - this is just the
>way df displays its output by default. If it annoys you, just put

>alias df	df -k

>in your .cshrc file - this is probably how you had it set up before.

There is another way that affects all commands. You can do

setenv BLOCKSIZE 1024

and most all commands that give results involving blocks will
come out in 1024 byte blocks then.

	David.