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Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 13:13:42 +0000
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5.14 IDE 56
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Hi!

> BTW. If one needs the size of the disk well we could
> attach it as a file size to the device file in /dev IMHO. Why not?

Seems like good idea. (I don't know how happy du is going to be that. OTOH
is du is not happy, we should fix it not to count block devices...)
								Pavel

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