On 09/30/2019 05:14 AM, Andreas Klauer wrote: > On Sun, Sep 29, 2019 at 03:54:41PM -0700, David F. wrote: >> So /proc/partitions can have floppy and optical drives on it. > > And people might rely on that so removing it is the wrong approach. > and people do... cat /proc/partitions major minor #blocks name 2 0 4 fd0 8 16 976762584 sdb 8 0 976762584 sda 8 32 732574584 sdc 11 0 1048575 sr0 -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.