RE: How to get the size of the block device ???? (Important)

From: Matt_Domsch@Dell.com
Date: Tue Dec 17 2002 - 13:49:09 EST

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> I think the question being asked is 'how do I find out how many block
> long the device is?'

You can use the BLKGETSIZE64 ioctl() too. I refer you to the GNU Parted
code (ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted) in libparted/linux.c to see how it's done
there. It first tries BLKGETSIZE64, then if that fails, tries BLKGETSIZE
instead.

Thanks,
Matt

-- Matt Domsch Sr. Software Engineer, Lead Engineer, Architect Dell Linux Solutions www.dell.com/linux Linux on Dell mailing lists @ http://lists.us.dell.com

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