I just wrote:
On Thursday, December 07, 2006 @ 1:33 PM, Geir Myrestrand wrote: Greg Wallace wrote:
one that would list all drives and their attributes would probably be more useful long term.
For that purpose you could use `hwinfo --disk`.
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Geir A. Myrestrand
This command did the job. Both of my drives are 512, so that would seem to be in line with what Randall said; i. e., that 512 is pretty much standard these days, at least based on what I have.
Some time back, I used Partition Magic to format a device and I would swear I was able to specify 4096 as a block size. I split the device into two partitions and made one of them NTFS and the other EXT2. I can't remember for sure, but I sort of think it was on the NTFS partition that I used the 4096, but maybe it was both of them. Could I possibly have done that on either of those partitions? Maybe that's only possible on NTFS partitions. The reason I made them (it) so large was that I was only going to use the device for full system backups (20 Gig files, more or less) and I thought the bigger the block size the faster the IO. That may not have been a correct assumption anyway, but in some test cases I ran the io seemed to be faster with the bigger block sizes. Greg Wallace -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org