Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 2 Nov 2002 12:40:26 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [2.5.45] Extended /proc/partitions |
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On Sat, 2 Nov 2002, Petr Baudis wrote:
> Hello, > > this patch (against 2.5.45) extends contents of /proc/partitions by starting > offset of each partition. This can be terribly useful if you (or someone who > then passed you the computer for a repair) by some mistake over-dd'd the > partition table on a disk, but the system is still up. I know that you can also > dig this out by some ioctl()s, but this can make life a lot easier for those > who don't know C or can't dig the ioctl codes from the kernel source code. > > Note that it's possibly totally flawed (I don't know anything about this > piece of code), but it looks to work ok.
It's already exported in files in driverfs. No need to duplicate in /proc/partitions.
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