Re: lseek("/dev/hda1", 0, SEEK_END) returns 0

Tom Vier (nester@erols.com)
Tue, 19 Jan 1999 19:42:00 -0500 (EST)

On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Jeff Noxon wrote:
> I'd suggest using /proc/partitions to find the data you want. But
> then again, that returns the length in blocks, and not all devices
> are 512b/block.

the BLKGETSIZE ioctl returns sector size of block devices (ie,
/dev/sda1). but don't sector sizes vary as well? there doesn't seem to
be an ioctl to get sector size, unfortunately.

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