* lakshmi pathi <lakshmipathi.g@xxxxxxxxx>: > When I ran dd command , > #dd if=/dev/zero of=dd.txt bs=4096 count=1 > 1+0 records in > 1+0 records out > 4096 bytes (4.1 kB) copied, 0.000445 seconds, 9.2 MB/s > > why it's shown as 4.1kB where as 4096 bytes is equal to 4KB? 1) What does this have to do with ext3? 2) man dd says: BLOCKS and BYTES may be followed by the following multiplicative suffixes: c =1, w =2, b =512, kB =1000, K =1024, MB=1000*1000, M =1024*1024, xM =M GB =1000*1000*1000, G=1024*1024*1024, and so on for T, P, E, Z, Y. Thus: 1kb = 1000bytes -- Ralf Hildebrandt Geschäftsbereich IT | Abteilung Netzwerk Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin Campus Benjamin Franklin Hindenburgdamm 30 | D-12203 Berlin Tel. +49 30 450 570 155 | Fax: +49 30 450 570 962 ralf.hildebrandt@xxxxxxxxxx | http://www.charite.de _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
