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Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 14:15:05 +0100
From: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
To: Niraj Kumar <niraj17@iitbombay.org>
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Subject: Re: How to read partition table
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On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 02:11:09PM +0530, Niraj Kumar wrote:

> Is there an ioctl command (or sys call) in the latest 2.6 kernel to read 
> the complete partition table
> from user space?

The syscall is called read().

If you want to see it done, look at partx in util-linux.