Block size

Patrick Dupre pd520 at york.ac.uk
Sat Oct 23 21:49:48 UTC 2010


On Sat, 23 Oct 2010, Patrick Dupre wrote:

> Hello,
>
> On a logical partition I am unable to set the block size to 1024 !
> I formatted the partition mke2fs /dev/VG1/part1 -b 1024 -t ext4
> and when I do a
> blockbsz --getbsz or mke2fs -n
> I get 4096 !
> I also tried 2048 with the same result.
But dumpe2fs gives the right answer !

>
> Is it related to the logical partition ?
>
> Thank.
>
>

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