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Bug#294206: stat(1) unclear about block size
From: |
Jeroen van Wolffelaar |
Subject: |
Bug#294206: stat(1) unclear about block size |
Date: |
Tue, 8 Feb 2005 14:42:09 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i |
Package: coreutils
Version: 5.2.1-2
I'm looking into using stat for determining available diskspace,
however, this proves difficult or badly documented.
$ stat --help
(...)
Valid format sequences for file systems:
%a Free blocks available to non-superuser
(...)
%s Optimal transfer block size
$
'Optimal transfer block size', I have the suspection that %s IS the
blocksize of the filesystem, which should be used in a number of other
parameters in order to translate number of blocks into number of bytes.
Is that correct?
If so, please document this properly with %s, 'optimal transfer' is a
bit a vague term. If this is untrue, what %-something printf item will
print the actual block size, what is shows when you do a simple stat -f?
--Jeroen
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Jeroen van Wolffelaar
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