On 2014-07-06 16:30 (GMT+0200) Carlos E. R. composed:
On Sunday, 2014-07-06 at 09:50 -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:
"Carlos E. R." <> wrote:
Possibly, if the filesystem indexes 512 byte units, it does not matter?
I don't know of a Linux filesystem that supports 512 byte blocks, but I'm sure they exist.
vfat does - but it is not a native Linux filesystem. Ext2... 1 K. I thought it allowed 0.5 K.
DOS refers to blocksize as cluster size. No FAT filesystem as used by any PC or MS DOS for an IBM PC and compatibles HD ever had a cluster size of less than 4 sectors, 2k bytes. The only FAT16x partitions using that minimum had a size of up to 128M, after which it went to 4k for up to 256M, after which it went to 8k for up to 512M, etc. up to the 2G partition maximum. FAT12 partitions all used a 4k cluster size. IIRC, some floppy types used a cluster size of 2 sectors, meaning only 1 sector at a time was never natively handled on those types. FAT32 minimum cluster size is also 4k under MS DOS 7.1. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org