On Thu, 19 Jan 2012, Andrew Galloway wrote: > df -k will give you the blocksize in 1k blocks i don't think so. that tells me 8213480 1K blocks, and that's definitely more than i have access to. so far, fdisk and /proc/partitions appear to give me precisely correct values. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================