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On Nov 8, 2005, at 12:22 PM, Al Viro wrote:
>
> fd = open(bdev, O_RDONLY);
> lseek(fd, SEEK_END, 0);
> size = lseek(fd, SEEK_SET, 0);
> close(fd);
>
> i.e. same as for regular files. Won't be portable, though...

For some reason this didn't work for bdev == "/dev/hda" - Size is
returned as 0..

Parag
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