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Re: blocksizes



On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 08:58:31PM +0000, Michael van Elst wrote:
 > The superblock already stores block sizes in terms of byte counts.
 > 
 > The problem is that it stores information that shouldn't be there but
 > which depends only on the underlying medium. If you change the medium
 > you invalidate that information.
 > 
 > The superblock stores lots of old and redundant cruft, mostly kept
 > for compatibility.

Can tunefs update it?

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David A. Holland
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