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From: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
To: Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add BLKPG_GET_PARTITION operation
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2011 13:35:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111208123534.GB16493@nb.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4ED6F340.9050000@cfl.rr.com>

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 10:23:44PM -0500, Phillip Susi wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
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> Add a new operation to the BLKPG ioctl to read the partition.
> This allows user space to find the current start and length
> of a partition without having to open the partition and use
> the long depreciated HDIO_GETGEO ioctl.

 $ cat /sys/block/sda/sda1/{size,start}
 4096000
 2048

 ...is probably the best way if you want to avoid problems with
 permissions and deprecated (or all) ioctls :-)

    Karel

-- 
 Karel Zak  <kzak@redhat.com>
 http://karelzak.blogspot.com

  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-08 12:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <cover.1322709471.git.psusi@cfl.rr.com>
2011-12-01  3:23 ` [PATCH 1/2] Add partition resize function to BLKPG ioctl Phillip Susi
2011-12-08 12:30   ` Karel Zak
2011-12-08 14:22     ` Phillip Susi
2011-12-08 15:16       ` Karel Zak
2011-12-08 15:25         ` Phillip Susi
2011-12-08 15:58           ` Vivek Goyal
2011-12-08 16:06             ` Phillip Susi
2011-12-08 16:28               ` Vivek Goyal
2011-12-08 16:55                 ` Phillip Susi
2011-12-09  2:53                 ` Phillip Susi
2011-12-12 14:53                   ` Vivek Goyal
2011-12-12 17:43                     ` Phillip Susi
2011-12-12 17:49                       ` Joe Perches
2011-12-12 18:04                         ` Vivek Goyal
2011-12-13  0:15                           ` Phillip Susi
2011-12-13  0:16                             ` Phillip Susi
2011-12-13  0:16                               ` [PATCH 2/2] Add BLKPG_GET_PARTITION operation Phillip Susi
2011-12-19 20:25                               ` [PATCH 1/2] Add partition resize function to BLKPG ioctl Vivek Goyal
2011-12-21  1:53                                 ` Phillip Susi
2011-12-21  1:54                                   ` Phillip Susi
2011-12-21  1:54                                     ` [PATCH 2/2] Add BLKPG_GET_PARTITION operation Phillip Susi
2011-12-21 20:46                                   ` [PATCH 1/2] Add partition resize function to BLKPG ioctl Vivek Goyal
2011-12-24 21:36                                     ` Phillip Susi
2011-12-24 22:21                                       ` Phillip Susi
2011-12-24 22:21                                         ` [PATCH 2/2] Add BLKPG_GET_PARTITION operation Phillip Susi
2011-12-01  3:23 ` Phillip Susi
2011-12-08 12:35   ` Karel Zak [this message]
2011-12-08 14:25     ` Phillip Susi

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