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Hi Jim! Thanks for your time.

I'm not sure to understand you well. When you say "blocks" in your post, are you speaking about physical (disk) blocks (sectors)?

If the answer to the above question is yes then, reading your answer, everything I have said in the first post is correct but I have not taken account FS metadata, access to which is not governed by the blocksize/fragmentsize. Right?

Than you very much!

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