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I created a file with a single "A" character in it. Ran the stat command and got as part of the information:

Size: 2 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 regular file

Why does a 2 bytes file occupy 8 512 bytes blocks on disk?

Also,is there a command that shows you how big one logic block is?

Thanks!

Vojtech Trefny
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    see https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/120311/why-are-there-so-many-different-ways-to-measure-disk-usage , https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/9612/why-is-there-a-discrepancy-in-disk-usage-reported-by-df-and-du among other – Archemar Nov 26 '20 at 07:31
  • Oh, and by the way, welcome to U&L, you are asking a valid question, but often asked, just follow links I gave. – Archemar Nov 26 '20 at 07:35

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