On Thursday, December 07, 2006 @ 1:29 PM, Geir Myrestrand wrote:
Greg Wallace wrote:
I feel pretty stupid asking such an elementary question, but don't know how to look it up. What command will tell me the block size of a given hard drive? It could also be a command that gives it to me for all drives but I really only need it for a particular one right now (/dev/sda5), though one that would list all drives and their attributes would probably be more useful long term.
blockdev from the util-linux package.
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Geir A. Myrestrand
Looks like this was actually the command I needed, as opposed hwinfo. I keyed in -- blockdev --getbsz /dev/sda and got back 4096. So, it would appear that a "block" on my drives consists of 8 sectors. It was really the block size I was interested in. hwinfo did not give me the block size; if it did, it was buried somewhere in there and I couldn't pick it out. Thanks, Greg Wallace -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org