Re: amount of blocks on a device

Miquel van Smoorenburg (miquels@cistron.nl)
23 May 1998 13:56:53 +0200

In article <Pine.OSF.3.96.980522200158.15451A-100000@ALUX19>,
Sieger Ralf AI <sieger@alpha.fh-furtwangen.de> wrote:
>
>On Thu, 21 May 1998, Sieger Ralf AI wrote:
>
>> How can I determine the amount of blocks on a given block device?
>>
>Sorry I forgot to say that I want to know this from inside the kernel.

There's a global array called blksize_size[major][minor]

First check if blksize_size[major] is not NULL then check
blksize_size[major][minor]. If the first is NULL assume 1024

Mike.

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