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From: "Andrey V. Elsukov" <ae@FreeBSD.org>
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To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
Subject: Re: docs/174270: gpart(8) man page doesn't describe output of "show"
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On 14.12.2012 18:38, Warren Block wrote:
> And to give a hint,
> 
>   Block sizes and locations are based on the logical block size of the
>   device, usually 512 bytes.
> 
> But it doesn't tell the user how to find out the actual logical block
> size.  That is only implied by the size values at the right.  We could
> refer the reader to diskinfo(8), but it would be nice if gpart showed
> the actual value used.

You can look into `gpart list` output, the Sectorsize value is what you
want.

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WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov