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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA5131 ; Tue, 22 Dec 92 03:01:09 EST Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ufo!kaleb From: kaleb@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley) Subject: Re: Dumb Question: Why 512 byte block? Message-ID: <1992Dec18.183144.13566@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov> Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA) Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 18:31:44 GMT Lines: 11 >>Why is everything in 1/2 k block instead the BSD standard of 1024 byte blocks? >>Yes, I know there is a '-k' switch, but it seems to me it should be >>the otherway around. The one answer I haven't seen yet, and the one that makes the most sense to me, is that the Sector size on most disks, even today, is 512 bytes. -- Kaleb Keithley kaleb@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov