how do i read a block

[Manish Katiyar]

On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 1:05 AM, shampavman <shampavman.cg at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Supposing i create a file of size 10K, it will occupy 2 blocks (4K each).
>

I must be missing something obvious. Why does a file of 10K only needs 2
blocks of 4K ? You haven't mentioned that it has any holes in it.




> Now if i want to read only 1 block from it how can i do it?
>
> read(fd, buf, 4096) ;
> would this mean i would read the first block and all its contents?
>
> Thanks
>
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Thanks -
Manish
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