[ale] determining blocksize?

[ups at stups.com (Stephan Uphoff)]

Geoffrey wrote:
> Stephan Uphoff wrote:
> > Don't know about a utility - but stat(2) on any file/directory of the
> > fs should provide what you need.
> > 
> > Just stating that such a utility is best written in C on this list 
> > should yield 10 alternative implementations in 20 languages ;-)
> 
> How about /usr/bin/stat ????

Yep - my mistake - I tried stat on the wrong box.

I guess /usr/bin/stat on my file server is just a little bit outdated 
and can not display the required information ;-)

$ stat /etc/redhat-release
  File: "/etc/redhat-release"
  Size: 35           Filetype: Regular File
  Mode: (0644/-rw-r--r--)         Uid: (    0/    root)  Gid: (    0/    root)
Device:  8,1   Inode: 22593     Links: 1
Access: Tue Dec 16 21:57:41 2003(00000.00:13:26)
Modify: Mon Apr 19 20:07:37 1999(01702.03:03:30)
Change: Mon Oct 16 19:14:35 2000(01156.03:56:32)

$cat  /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Linux release 6.0 (Hedwig)

Newer versions (just checked on R9.0 and FreeBSD) seem to have the required
functionality and support even neat command line arguments.


	Stephan