How to determine file system block size?

provo1234 · 02-14-2005, 12:55 AM

Hi there

I have RH EL installed on my machine with an ext3 filesystem. How can I know the block size of the filesystem?

I tried "df -k", which lists the sizes of the partitions in 1K-Blocks. But I believe that 1K is not the block size of the partitions as such.

Thanks for your help
Andre

btmiller · 02-14-2005, 01:25 AM

As root:

tune2fs -l

will spit out a variety of data about the filesystem, one datum of which is the filesystem block size.

provo1234 · 02-14-2005, 09:30 AM

Thanks for letting me know abt the command. That was very helpful.

Andre