[SOLVED] Default blocksize on storage partition

**infinity85** · November 18, 2016 at 3:02 PM

Quote from vpeter

Linux stat commands show: IO Block: 1024
And I don't think we have somethnig different for Virtual builds.

A little more technical view of data captured with Wireshark:

samba.conf allocation roundup size = 0
Allocation size: 1024
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samba.conf allocation roundup size = 4096
Allocation size: 4096
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Sweet! The wireshark info is nice to see. Didn't know that wireshark also lists this info, thanks for this hint!

Well yeah, then it's indeed solved. I'd say allocation = 0 is a good setting as future default.

Already marked it as solved

Regarding the passwords issue with special characters like ! and * that I mentioned in my Post #15: If somebody has a clue, feel free to share it

cheers

**milhouse** · November 18, 2016 at 8:52 PM

The underlying file system appears to have no bearing on the allocation roundup size - an RPi2 with 4096 byte ext4 block size still results in Windows 7 reporting 1024 bytes "Size on disk" for a 1 byte file.
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I'd suggest a separate post for the password query, this thread is about block size and it's marked solved.

**infinity85** · November 20, 2016 at 9:18 PM

Quote from milhouse

The underlying file system appears to have no bearing on the allocation roundup size - an RPi2 with 4096 byte ext4 block size still results in Windows 7 reporting 1024 bytes "Size on disk" for a 1 byte file.

Yep, that confirms my impression that there was actually a bug in Windows 7 (ignores parameter allocation roundup size), which is solved since Windows 8

Thanks a lot for solving my issue here!