Unix Programming - Determine Blocksize?

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Determine Blocksize?

Michael B Allen

2005-01-09, 3:57 am

Is there a portable way to determine the blocksize of a filesystem?
Calling stat(2) on Linux with an ext3 FS returns an st_blksize of 0. Does
that mean the default?

Thanks,
Mike

Heiner Steven

2005-01-28, 8:58 pm

Michael B Allen wrote:
> Is there a portable way to determine the blocksize of a filesystem?
> Calling stat(2) on Linux with an ext3 FS returns an st_blksize of 0. Does
> that mean the default?

Did you try

statfs(2)

?

Heiner
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