Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 13 Jun 1997 08:58:41 -0400 (EDT) | From | (Steven S. Dick) | Subject | Re: *Help!* Where is device partition info stored by the kernel? |
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grant@knot.torque.net wrote: >There's probably a better solution, but at worst you could write a little >program to use the BLKGETSIZE ioctl to extract the _size_ of each >partition, and then deduce the layout from that.
Even better, each ext2fs partition has a superblock with a magic number in it.
Some time ago, I wrote a program called findsuper that looks for sectors containing this magic number in the right place. Last I checked, findsuper was part of the ext2fs distribution. (I can e-mail it out if you can't find it.) Findsuper can find your ext2fs partitions, even if you have no clue what your partition table should look like.
Steve
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