| From: | Michael Bourne |
| Date: | 3 May 2000 at 09:03:19 |
| Subject: | Re: Mounter |
Hello Adam,
On Wednesday, you wrote:
>> I have blocksize 512 on all my partitions
> Just what I thought. With a 512 blocksize, Mounter correctly
> calculates the size of a device. If you use a blocksize of 1024
> or greater, Mounter will incorrectly calculate the size of a
> device. It appears that Mounter multiplies total raw blocks by
> the formatted blocksize. With 1000 raw blocks and a blocksize of
> 512, Mounter will report 512,000 bytes. With a blocksize of 1024,
> Mounter will report 1,024,000 bytes, which is incorrect - it
> should report 512,000 bytes (all other things being equal).
Yes, same behaviour here for the partitions on all drives.
Mounter correctly reports the drive total capacity but partitions
formated as 1024 byte filesystem blocks are reported as double what
they should be...
Michael
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