On Sat, 10 Jan 2009 13:43:29 +0530 "Sandeep K Sinha" <sandeepksinha@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I don't understand the reason why we keep the number of blocks in > multiple of 512 bytes. > I mean, if we have allocated 1 block, this value is shown as 8, 16 for > 2 and so on.... for a 4KB file system block size. > > Is there any specific reason for the same ? Block devices have historically used a 512 byte blocksize. That will change in the future, but the default blocksize will remain 512 bytes for a long time. Erik -- Erik Mouw -- mouw@xxxxxxxxxxxx GPG key fingerprint: D6AC 7F15 A26E C5C4 62E0 4A58 FCF9 551C 9B48 B68D
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