Monday, September 12, 2005

How to get Block size base on OS

For Windows on Intel.
1. For window on Intel default size is 512 byte, but you can change it by pre-formatting hard drive.

2. Use fsutil fsinfo ntfsinfo c: to get

c:\>fsutil fsinfo ntfsinfo c:
NTFS Volume Serial Number : 0x1e345b64345b3e49
Version : 3.1
Number Sectors : 0x0000000004a852c0
Total Clusters : 0x0000000000950a58
Free Clusters : 0x00000000003ae433
Total Reserved : 0x0000000000000000
Bytes Per Sector : 512
Bytes Per Cluster : 4096 -- this is answer
Bytes Per FileRecord Segment : 1024
Clusters Per FileRecord Segment : 0
Mft Valid Data Length : 0x000000000d72a000
Mft Start Lcn : 0x00000000000c0000
Mft2 Start Lcn : 0x00000000004a852c
Mft Zone Start : 0x0000000000800020
Mft Zone End : 0x000000000083b520

3. To get all possible OS block sizes use
c:\ format /?

4. In explorer select your hard drive, click right button, select "Format..."
from
context menu, and see your OS block size as "Allocation unit size".

Redhat linux on Intel
dump2fs /dev/hda

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