Re: Bug#294206: stat(1) unclear about block size

[Andreas Schwab]

Jeroen van Wolffelaar <address@hidden> writes:

> On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 05:43:08PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> Does stat's --file-system (-f) option do what you want?
>> 
>>     $ stat -f /
>>       File: "/"
>>         ID: 0        Namelen: 255     Type: ext2/ext3
>>     Blocks: Total: 1032080    Free: 887328     Available: 834894     Size: 
>> 4096
>
> No, as strace-ing reveals only statfs is called,

Which is completely correct.  Linux does not have a statvfs syscall,
everything is in the C library.

Andreas.

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