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Re: set blksize of block device

On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 23:24:59 -0500, Lei Yang
<lya755@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> However,  typically the block size is 1KB, now I want to set it to 512
> or 256.  Can I do it?

Linux supports variable hardware block sizes of up to PAGE_SIZE (4K on
most 32bit systems but not always) and typical devices use 512 byte
sectors in the case of disks, with larger mass storage devices such as
optical drives using several KB. What is it that you actually want to
do though - vary the physical block size used?

Jon.

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