ioctl to get partitions infos
Hi !
As I need more than 'cat /proc/partitions', I wondered if there's an ioctl in 2.4 or 2.5 which will kindly return me all the information the kernel knows about partition (start sector, length, type) ? (pls, don't say that I need the parse the partition table myself ;-( )
Regards,
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As I need more than 'cat
/proc/partitions', I wondered if there's an ioctl in 2.4 or 2.5 which will kindly return me all the information the kernel knows about partition (start sector, length, type) ? (pls, don't say that I need the parse the partition table myself ;-( )
There are ioctls that will tell you start sector and length. HDIO_GETGEO gives you start
BLKGETSIZE gives you length
I do not know what you mean by type, but the kernel doesn't know it.
(A partition may be found from a DOS-type or BSD-type or Amiga-type or ... partition table. Each has its own ways of indicating a type of partition. A partition can also be created by ioctl where no partition table is involved. Then there is no type at all. No type is used by the kernel, roughly speaking.)
Andries