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1 PerryLorier 1 a BlockSize is the amount of data you can read/write from a device in one operation. For most disk drives this is 512 bytes, although I belive for [CDROM] drives this is 1024 bytes.
2 AlastairPorter 2
3 a BlockSize of 512 bytes is [POSIXLY_CORRECT]