On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 09:43:39PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Dave Jones wrote: > >On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 12:45:25AM +0200, Alfredo Ferrari wrote: > > I hate to sound stupid Dave, but what utility will tell us if the > partition being inspected is a 1k/block partition? > > We'd like to know if we are vulnerable to this one. tune2fs -l /dev/hdX | grep Block\ size As others have pointed out, chances are your /boot (and any other similar small sized partitions) will be 1k. Asides from this, unless you manually created a filesystem by hand with custom options to mkfs, you should have 4K block sizes. Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk