On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 01:25:39PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > On my system, a block appears to be 2-512 byte sectors, but is it > always so? Yes. It's stupid legacy (the same thing you can found in /proc/partitions). I hope that one day we will have better and nicer fdisk with human readable sizes ;-) Karel -- Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> http://karelzak.blogspot.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html