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Aardwolf on Oct 13, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Hacking ls -l

I really don't understand why block size is 512 by default. It should really be 1 by default.

Except for someone with an ancient hard disk who thinks in blocks instead of (mega, giga, etc...)bytes, who ever needs or wants that?

alayne on Oct 14, 2012 [–]

512 byte blocks for ls is specified by POSIX. That would probably be a painful change now.

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