On Friday, 30 April 1999 at 20:51:06 -0700, Matt Jacob wrote:
>>
>> I don't really understand why you ask a FreeBSD group about it; it's a
>> Linux issue. FWIW, about the only area where you're liable to run
>> into difficulties is in the disk label handling round line 300, which
>> is pretty peripheral to the function: it's just there as one way of
>> finding out the size of the partition. You'll need in-depth Linux
>> information to even find out if Linux has an equivalent function.
>
> Open the device, and
>
> if (ioctl(fd, BLKGETSIZE, (caddr_t) &seeklim) < 0) {
>
> see <linux/fs.h>
Thanks for the info. Looking at this, it looks as if this ioctl is
for a block device. rawio uses character devices. Does that make a
difference?
Greg
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