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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!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!bofh.dot!nntp.uio.no!Norway.EU.net!EU.net!ieunet!maths.tcd.ie!not-for-mail From: dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie (David Malone) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD File System 512 byte-blocks --> 1024 byte-blocks Date: 31 May 1996 07:53:33 +0100 Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4om51d$bba@hamilton.maths.tcd.ie> References: <31AD5973.7D95@ucla.edu> <4ol30a$av9@jraynard.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: hamilton.maths.tcd.ie 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. There is another way that affects all commands. You can do setenv BLOCKSIZE 1024 and most all commands that give results involving blocks will come out in 1024 byte blocks then. David.