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From: Matt_Domsch@Dell.com
To: nikberry@med.umich.edu, root@chaos.analogic.com, sanju93csd@yahoo.co.in
cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: RE: How to get the size of the block device ???? (Important)
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 12:49:09 -0600
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> I think the question being asked is 'how do I find out how many block
> long the device is?'

You can use the BLKGETSIZE64 ioctl() too.  I refer you to the GNU Parted
code (ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted) in libparted/linux.c to see how it's done
there.  It first tries BLKGETSIZE64, then if that fails, tries BLKGETSIZE
instead.

Thanks,
Matt

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Matt Domsch
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