From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: shampavman.cg@gmail.com (shampavman) Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 13:35:54 +0530 Subject: how do i read a block Message-ID: <51909EE2.30605@gmail.com> To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org List-Id: kernelnewbies.lists.kernelnewbies.org Hi all, Supposing i create a file of size 10K, it will occupy 2 blocks (4K each). 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