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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!metro!metro!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!nsw.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!vic.news.telstra.net!news.mira.net.au!inquo!bofh.dot!nntp.uio.no!solace!news From: heb@fubar.campus.luth.se (Henrik Bylund) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD File System 512 byte-blocks --> 1024 byte-blocks Date: 31 May 1996 02:08:44 +0200 Organization: People's Front Against WWW Lines: 19 Sender: heb@fubar.campus.luth.se Message-ID: <87u3wxwvoz.fsf@fubar.campus.luth.se> References: <31AD5973.7D95@ucla.edu> <4ol30a$av9@jraynard.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: fubar.campus.luth.se In-reply-to: james@jraynard.demon.co.uk's message of 30 May 1996 21:12:42 -0000 X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.1 In article <4ol30a$av9@jraynard.demon.co.uk> james@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard) writes: >In article <31AD5973.7D95@ucla.edu>, Hook Hua <hookh@ucla.edu> wrote: > >>partition. Does anyone know why it changed? And is it possible to change >>the block size back to 1024bytes w/o reinstalling FreeBSD? ...what >>gives? > >Fortunately you don't need to re-install FreeBSD - this is just the >way df displays its output by default. If it annoys you, just put > >alias df df -k > >in your .cshrc file - this is probably how you had it set up before. Better yet, set your environment variable 'BLOCKSIZE' to 'k', allowing other programs as well to know that you want blocks displayed in 1K chunks. /Henrik