> which is same as one would expect. It doesn't show any extra block allocated to this file. > > Can you mail output on your system? > > niTin Well Nitin, that's surprising! Check this out: [karthik@darkstar ch1]$ ./blocks blocks.c size: 637 blksize: 4096 blocks: 16 blocks * 512 = 8192 I ran the blocks program on its own source - as you can see, it only requires 4096 bytes, since the file size is 637 bytes, but the allocated amount is 8192 bytes, 4096 in excess of what is required. Here's a table of file sizes vs. allocated block sizes that I compiled on my machine: File Allocated ----------------------- 0 4096 1024 8192 2048 8192 3072 8192 4096 8192 5120 12288 6144 12288 7168 12288 8192 12288 9216 16384 Regards, Karthik. -- There are things known and things unknown, in between lie the Doors -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
