On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 05:18:56PM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: > > I just looked up libudev and it looks like there is even a pyudev wrapper, > > so that could indeed work better. I take it that queries via > > udev_enumerate for (say) ID_PART_ENTRY_TYPE=x are efficient? > > Sure, filter for "block" devices and this or other GPT properties. The > libudev API will just find the devices is /sys and read the database > files in tmpfs /run and, it will not talk to any devices, so it should > perform pretty well. and on command line lsblk(8) reads the info from udev db, so you can use: $ lsblk -o+PARTTYPE NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT PARTTYPE sda 8:0 0 149.1G 0 disk ├─sda1 8:1 0 1000M 0 part /boot c12a7328-f81f-11d2-ba4b-00a0c93ec93b ├─sda2 8:2 0 2G 0 part ebd0a0a2-b9e5-4433-87c0-68b6b72699c7 ├─sda3 8:3 0 9.7G 0 part [SWAP] 0657fd6d-a4ab-43c4-84e5-0933c84b4f4f ├─sda4 8:4 0 34.2G 0 part / ebd0a0a2-b9e5-4433-87c0-68b6b72699c7 ├─sda5 8:5 0 63.2G 0 part /home ebd0a0a2-b9e5-4433-87c0-68b6b72699c7 └─sda6 8:6 0 39.1G 0 part ebd0a0a2-b9e5-4433-87c0-68b6b72699c7 (well, this is from git tree, will be in v2.25 :-) Karel -- Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> http://karelzak.blogspot.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html