On Mon, 19 May 2008, Michael Blizek wrote:
> On 07:55 Sun 18 May , Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> > possibly slightly off-topic, but i've been handed (not at hand at
> > the moment, though) an embedded system running 2.4.26, which has a
> > bunch of flash-based partitions corresponding to the device files
> > /dev/scsi/host-?/bus0/target0/lun0/part-?.
> >
> > what i want is a quick way to determine the size in bytes of those
> > partitions. will there be entries for them in /proc/partitions? is
> > there a better way? they won't necessarily be mounted; in fact, they
> > probably won't be. thoughts? thanks.
>
> cat /sys/block/hda/hda1/size
> -Michi
sadly, on this system, there is no /sys filesystem. but i got what i
needed by just opening the device, reading the boot sector and parsing
the partition table. it seemed like the simplest thing to do.
rday
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