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(21-11-2020, 12:55 PM)phillbush Wrote: That is still valid on OpenBSD. It uses the environment variable BLOCKSIZE to specify the size of a block.

I know it's still valid today, I was trying to reason that at the time it was more commonplace to count space left as blocks left and not "bytes" left. The filesystem normally eats up a block at a time, even if your file is smaller than a block, so this actually makes sense.


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RE: Nixers Book Club - Book #1: The UNIX Programming Environment - by venam - 21-11-2020, 01:21 PM