From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 9 22:29:43 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA06724 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 22:29:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from out4.ibm.net (out4.ibm.net [165.87.194.239]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA06716 for ; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 22:29:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mikegoe@ibm.net) Received: from Nikki (slip129-37-208-78.oh.us.ibm.net [129.37.208.78]) by out4.ibm.net (8.8.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id GAA119060 for ; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 06:29:09 GMT Message-Id: <199901100629.GAA119060@out4.ibm.net> From: "Michael G." To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 01:23:27 -0500 Reply-To: "Michael G." X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows 98 (4.10.1998) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: FreeBSD Cluster Size Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG By cluster I was using the minimum data storage size measurement used by FAT-16, FAT-32, HPFS, and NTFS. i.e. for a FAT-16 based drive the minimum cluster size is based on the size of a FAT partition. Now USF uses partitions to mean the same thing..so I was looking for a cluster standard. As for this: PIC X 10 VALUE "YES! COBOL" This a delcaritive COBOL statement assigning the value in quotes to a character variable (variable not shown here) Michael G. On Sun, 10 Jan 1999 16:29:13 +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: >'m sorry, I don't understand what you mean by ``cluster''. The UFS >file system stores file data in blocks and fragments, and metadata in >inodes. It's described in /usr/share/doc/smm/05.fastfs/paper.*. >Typically, block sizes are 4kB or 8 kB, and the corresponding >fragments sizes are 512 bytes and 1 kB. > >> PIC X 10 VALUE "YES! COBOL" > >What language is this? > >Greg ------------------------------------------------------------------- ICQ #24517082 Live FreeBSD...Or Die! PIC X 10 VALUE "YES! COBOL" ------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message