| From: | Liam |
| Date: | 24 May 2000 at 19:26:12 |
| Subject: | Re: BlockSize |
Hello Michael
On 24-May-00, you wrote:
> Hello Liam,
>> I've just partitioned 1.0gig of my harddrive (Quatum Firbrall
>> 6.4GB) & set the Blocksize to 1024, I then checked the partition
>> through It's Icon info & it still tells me 512 blocksize, even
> Set the _filesystem_ blocksize to 1024 in the partitioning section,
> not in the drive description - "Install Drive" - section, leave
> that at 512.
> The 1024 blocksize is not a sector size setting but is to be
> a filesystem blocksize setting. So the drive remains with a
> block/sector size of 512 bytes but the filesystem gets a 1024
> byte blocksize. The two, although of similar terminology, are
> separate entities.
Hey thanks Michael! BTW, What are there separate entities?
Regards,
-LIAM-
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