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From: stesin@elvisti.kiev.ua (Andrew V. Stesin)
Subject: Re: FreeBSD File System 512 byte-blocks --> 1024 byte-blocks
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Hook Hua (hookh@ucla.edu) wrote:
: I was installing FreeBSD 2.1 several times trying to get things right 
: and I noticed that on my last install, the df command would return file 
: system block sizes of 512 bytes. All of my previous installs were of 
: 1024 byte blocks. I always used the auto feature during the 
: 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?

: Any suggestions would be appreciated.

: Hook Hua

	See /etc/profile and /etc/csh.login for examples of
	using BLOCKSIZE env variable. Uncomment them if you wish.

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