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Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 09:36:26 -0500 (EST)
From: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
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Subject: Re: How to get the size of the block device ???? (Important)
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On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, [iso-8859-1] Sanjay Kumar wrote:

> Hi,
>   I am Sanjay Kumar and wants to write my own file
> system on Linux. I have almost written the code.
>   But,now i have a problem while writing the code 
> for "mkfs" for my filesystem.
> 
> Problem Summary : I need the size of the block device
> in bytes on which my file system will be created.
> Actually, there is a feild in the super block, needs
> the total no of blocks on the device while while
> creating the filesystem. So, Can you Plz. help me out
> of this problem.
> 

You make an ioctl() function for your file-system that returns
the block-size that you selected when you designed the system.


Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.18 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).
Why is the government concerned about the lunatic fringe? Think about it.


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