[Lancaster] how big are my blocks? using quota

[Andy Smith]

On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 02:27:25PM +0100, max* wrote:
> using quota to set the amount of space on the hard-drive that each user can 
> have on a filesystem. But edquota measures this size in blocks. How can I 
> tell how big my blocks are, in order to work out how blocks to set a quota 
> on? (Obviously I'm thinking in terms of MB, GB etc)

Assuming ext2/ext3:

$ sudo tune2fs -l /dev/sda1 | grep "^Block size"
Block size:               4096

(bytes)

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