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

[Erik Mouw <mouw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 03:38:54AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> sadly, on this system, there is no /sys filesystem.  but i got what i
> needed by just opening the device, reading the boot sector and parsing
> the partition table.  it seemed like the simplest thing to do.

Another trick: blockdev --getsize64 /dev/whateverblockdevice


Erik

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