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Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 13:55:32 +0000
From: Jon Masters <jonmasters@gmail.com>
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To: Bijoy Thomas <bijoyjth@gwu.edu>
Subject: Re: set blksize of block device
Cc: Lei Yang <lya755@ece.northwestern.edu>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       kernelnewbies <kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org>
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On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 23:34:08 -0400, Bijoy Thomas <bijoyjth@gwu.edu> wrote:

> You set the blocksize for block device when you format it.

Just to clear this up for the archives, it's worth explaining the
difference between the various block sizes mentioned - the poster was
referring to hardware block size (e.g. sector size on a hard disk) and
not to the size used within a particular filesystem.

Jon.
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