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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA1669 ; Tue, 23 Feb 93 14:52:43 EST Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!spool.mu.edu!uunet!pipex!bnr.co.uk!uknet!axion!lessen From: lessen@axion.bt.co.uk (Lee Essen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Device Drivers and Partition Sizes Message-ID: <1993Feb19.080713@axion.bt.co.uk> Date: 19 Feb 93 08:07:13 GMT Sender: news@axion.bt.co.uk Reply-To: lessen@axion.bt.co.uk (Lee Essen) Organization: British Telecom Research Labs Lines: 11 >From within a device driver, what is the easiest way of finding the size of a partition, given the device name eg. /dev/wd0h My thoughts are to do a get_disk_info IOCTL but this won't work with the floppy drives, is there any standard way? (And can it be done from within a device driver?) Thanks, Lee.