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- From: kaleb@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley)
- Subject: Re: Dumb Question: Why 512 byte block?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.183144.13566@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov>
- Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA)
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 18:31:44 GMT
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- >>Why is everything in 1/2 k block instead the BSD standard of 1024 byte blocks?
- >>Yes, I know there is a '-k' switch, but it seems to me it should be
- >>the otherway around.
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- The one answer I haven't seen yet, and the one that makes the most sense
- to me, is that the Sector size on most disks, even today, is 512 bytes.
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- Kaleb Keithley kaleb@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov
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