Re: Re: [Bug-ddrescue] badblocks - what data

[Al Grant]

andrew zajac-2 wrote:
> 
> Your drive is made up of 512 byte blocks.  Your NTFS filesystem probably
> is made up of 4096 byte blocks.
> 
> Hypothetically, if badblocks tells you that the tenth block is bad, that
> is not the same as the tenth block in the NTFS filesystem.  It would
> actually fall in the second 4096-byte NTFS block since 4096/512=8. 
> 

So, lemme check if I got this clear. A drive has a block size on a physical
level (512) and on a logical, or file system level. In the case of NFS 4096?

I understand blocks at present only in terms of disk geometry in that thye
are theintersection of a cylander and a sector.

Cheers

-Al

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