Re: how to get the size of a disk partition from user space?

[Michael Blizek <michi1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 07:55 Sun 18 May     , Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
>   possibly slightly off-topic, but i've been handed (not at hand at
> the moment, though) an embedded system running 2.4.26, which has a
> bunch of flash-based partitions corresponding to the device files
> /dev/scsi/host-?/bus0/target0/lun0/part-?.
> 
>   what i want is a quick way to determine the size in bytes of those
> partitions.  will there be entries for them in /proc/partitions?  is
> there a better way?  they won't necessarily be mounted; in fact, they
> probably won't be.  thoughts?  thanks.

cat /sys/block/hda/hda1/size
	-Michi
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