[cs631apue] why used blocks are always even in ls?

[hao wu]

I found out the reason, it because that my system physical block size
actually  is 4096.

12987/4096 = 3.17  ==> 4

and BLOCKSIZE not have to set as the same value as the physical block size





On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 3:09 PM, hao wu <hwu9 at stevens.edu> wrote:

> suppose I have a file abc, its  size is 12987,
>
> the environment BLOCKSIZE now is 2048.
>
> 12987/2048  = 6.34
>
> I think the blocks used should be 7.
>
> but in ls ,it shows 8
>
> I found that the blocks used are always even in ls, any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Hao
>
>
>
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