[PLUG] Different file sizes on different computers

Paul Mullen pm at nellump.net
Tue Dec 10 18:11:55 UTC 2013


On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 09:58:29AM -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> I think the best answer so far is different block sizes. Both drives
> are ext4. I tried to check what block sizes the two drives used, but
> Palimpsest and Gparted do not give that information. Is there a command
> line tool that I can use to check this?

tune2fs -l /PATH/TO/BLOCK/DEVICE | grep 'Block size'

E.g.,:

    # tune2fs -l /dev/sda1 | grep 'Block size'
    Block size:               4096


-- 
Paul



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