Q: ioctl BLKGETSIZE return value units?

From: Anton Altaparmakov (aia21@cam.ac.uk)
Date: Sat May 19 2001 - 10:40:21 EST

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Hi,

What are the units of the return value of the BLKGETSIZE ioctl on Linux?

Is it allways in units of 512 bytes or is it in units of sector size bytes
as returned by BLKSSZGET ioctl?

Thanks in advance.

Best regards,

Anton

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