Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 12 Aug 2005 15:45:31 -0400 | Subject | Re: fdisk & LBA | From | (Lennart Sorensen) |
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On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 10:29:13PM +0300, Nanakos Chrysostomos wrote: > Hi all,i want to retrieve the partition table of a primary extended > partition. > My MBR partition table ,says that the LBA Partition Start sector for the > extended partition is 10281600.It is the same that i find with my C code > and through fdisk usage. > How can i use this value to seek(lseek) to this point through the main > block file (/dev/hda or /dev/hdb) and read the partition table of the > logical partition?
Multiply by the sector size (probably 512 bytes).
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