On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 02:34:46PM -0700, L A Walsh wrote:
> On 3/11/2019 2:21 PM, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> > * L A Walsh (lkml@xxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> >> Trying to track down why my 4K drives no longer display 4K
> >> in sysfs (/sys) and don't seem to show individual disk
> >> drive information. When I first got the drives, linux displayed
> >> the correct physical disk size, but when I look now, I only
> >> see 512.
> >
> > Is this one of the PHY-SEC or LOG-SEC fields that lsblk can print?
> >
> > [dg@major ~]$ lsblk -o "NAME,PHY-SEC,LOG-SEC"
> > NAME PHY-SEC LOG-SEC
> > sda 512 512
> ---
> It would be, if it was correct. Megacli displays:
>
> Sector Size: 512
> Logical Sector Size: 512
> Physical Sector Size: 4096
>
> But lsblk displays 512 for everything. The disk says it uses a 512e format
> with the 'e' meaning it emulates 512 even if not 512.
lsblk, fdisk, blockdev, ... but all of the utils read the information
from kernel. So, it depends how the device reports topology to the
kernel.
Karel
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