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With many new hard drive disks the physical sector size is 4096. Would it be possible to make the system use a logical sector size of the same size, rather than the default logical sector size of 512?

How would you configure that?

matanox
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There is a difference between block size and cluster-size but there is no such thing as logical sector size in ext4.

Probably you already have an IO block of 4096: try doing a stat .bash_logout in your home directory.

  File: ‘.bash_logout’
  Size: 220         Blocks: 8          IO Block: 4096   regular file

For more info: man mkfs.ext4

And finally: Stop worrying! ext4 uses heuristics to format your drive as efficiently as possible. ;-)

Fabby
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