On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 12:01:32PM +0200, Ludovic Drolez wrote:
> As I need more than 'cat /proc/partitions', I wondered if there's an
> ioctl in 2.4 or 2.5 which will kindly return me all the information the
> kernel knows about partition (start sector, length, type) ? (pls, don't
> say that I need the parse the partition table myself ;-( )
There are ioctls that will tell you start sector and length.
HDIO_GETGEO gives you start
BLKGETSIZE gives you length
I do not know what you mean by type, but the kernel doesn't know it.
(A partition may be found from a DOS-type or BSD-type or Amiga-type
or ... partition table. Each has its own ways of indicating a type
of partition. A partition can also be created by ioctl where no
partition table is involved. Then there is no type at all.
No type is used by the kernel, roughly speaking.)
Andries
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