Tim wrote:
> Are you sure about that? I couldn't find any reference inside Fedora
> about it. Something else, more general about Linux, said it was in
> "blocks."
Jeff Vian wrote:
> Not true for Linux. AIX and others may use blocks but Linux uses bytes
> or kilobytes for almost all size displays.
Well, technically they are blocks -- it's just that they're blocks of
1024 bytes, by default. And on AIX they're blocks of 512 bytes.
On neither system do they have any link with the size of filesystem
blocks (which is 4096 by default on both systems).
Hope this helps,
James.
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