From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 22 18:22:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA03810 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 18:22:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gamma.aei.ca (gamma.aei.ca [206.123.6.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA03741 for ; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 18:21:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from malartre@aei.ca) Received: from aei.ca (aeiusrD-18.aei.ca [206.186.204.168]) by gamma.aei.ca (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA23702 for ; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 21:21:28 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <362FD9E1.C8452CA8@aei.ca> Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 21:20:33 -0400 From: Malartre X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: How big is a block??? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG man ls ... The Long Format In addition, for each directory whose contents are displayed, the total number of 512-byte blocks used by the files in the directoryry whose contents are displayed... ... man df Values are displayed in 512-byte per block block counts. -k Use 1024-byte (1-Kbyte) blocks rather than the default. Note that this overrides the BLOCKSIZE specification from the environment. ... How big is a 512-byte block? I mean, how much block for a K, a Meg, etc.. Tank you -- [Malartre][malartre@aei.ca][http://www.aei.ca/~malartre/] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message