Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 Jan 1999 19:42:00 -0500 (EST) | From | Tom Vier <> | Subject | Re: lseek("/dev/hda1", 0, SEEK_END) returns 0 |
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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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