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Old 07-20-2004
How to know the OS Block size
Hello Unix guru's

I want to check my OS Block size for the Solaris 8

Following is one of the line from df -g command.

Can anybody help to interpret the same.

/u03 (/dev/vx/dsk/oradg/vol03): 8192 block size 8192 frag size
205463552 total blocks 50433792 free blocks 50040000 available 788128 total files
788005 free files 52792949 filesys id
vxfs fstype 0x00000004 flag 255 filename length


Thanks

Dilip Patel.
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Old 07-20-2004
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try:

prtvtoc /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0

prtvtoc /dev/vx/dsk/rootdg/rootvol

or man fstyp


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