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Subject: Re: How to get the size of the block device ???? (Important)
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commence  Richard B. Johnson quotation:

> On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, [iso-8859-1] Sanjay Kumar wrote:
>
>> 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.

The size of the block device is what is sought here, not the block
size of the filesystem.

Isn't there an ioctl for this?  BLKSIZEGET or something?

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