On Wed, Sep 17, 2025 at 2:48 PM home user via users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > A drive is divided into sectors, which are divided into blocks. Am I right?
Correct, although you usually don't care about sectors. In fact, most modern spinning disk drives *lie* about the number of sectors and their size. Only the block size and number of blocks is normally relevant. > For the above, does it matter whether the drive is spinning or solid state? No, the OS hides these details (assuming it matters at all). In addition to NVMe SSDs you can also get SATA SSDs, and these show up as the usual /dev/sda, sdb, etc. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
