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From: "Mihai Donțu" <mihai.dontu@gmail.com>
To: 韩磊 <bonben1989@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux kernel API about sector count
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 15:05:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131111150507.0bb1083e@mdontu-l> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK2Ky6yh6U1wiAAPC9TgWduzO4NS9Km0FGgRvMntTm=qYkWt7A@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, 11 Nov 2013 20:31:14 +0800 韩磊 wrote:
> Can you tell me the API about the count of sector in linux kernel?
> 
> which .h file and function?
> 

Looking at fdisk (util-linux) there are several ioctls:
 * HDIO_GETGEO  (linux/hdreg.h)
 * BLKGETSIZE64 (linux/fs.h), sector size is assumed 512

The HDIO interface *seems* to be legacy:
http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/ioctl/hdio.txt

Also see:
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/utils/util-linux/util-linux.git/tree/fdisks/fdisk.c

I hope this helps a bit.

-- 
Mihai Donțu

  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-11 13:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-11 12:31 韩磊
2013-11-11 13:05 ` Mihai Donțu [this message]
2013-11-11 13:17   ` 韩磊
2013-11-12  2:52     ` 韩磊
2013-11-12  4:54       ` Davidlohr Bueso

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