Re: K8 CDs etc

[Marco Gerards <metgerards@student.han.nl>]

Philip Charles <philipc@copyleft.co.nz> writes:

> I know it is a bad time of the year, but the K8 CD iso's are being
> uploaded to gnuab.org at the moment.  The first image 70% on its way.  All
> four should have been uploaded in about 40 hours.  16 KB/s upload Ahhg...

Cool!

> Main features.  The 2GB partition limit has gone.  The tests were made on
> a 20 GB partition.  The 2+ years old mkfs in the GNU/Linux installation
> system creates the filesystem on the large partitions nicely.  This means
> that the Linux installer has not had to be modified and so remains at "K".

Now you mention mkfs and after reading some requests for help this
makes me doubt a bit.  How do you make sure the filesystem has a 4096
bytes block size?  IIRC the block size is automatically chosen
depending on the partition size.

Thanks,
Marco