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Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 21:17:31 +0800
From: 韩磊 <bonben1989@...il.com>
To: Mihai Donțu <mihai.dontu@...il.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux kernel API about sector count
Thank you! I need disk's total count of sector,not the sector size.
2013/11/11 Mihai Donțu <mihai.dontu@...il.com>:
> On Mon, 11 Nov 2013 20:31:14 +0800 韩磊 wrote:
>> Can you tell me the API about the count of sector in linux kernel?
>>
>> which .h file and function?
>>
>
> Looking at fdisk (util-linux) there are several ioctls:
> * HDIO_GETGEO (linux/hdreg.h)
> * BLKGETSIZE64 (linux/fs.h), sector size is assumed 512
>
> The HDIO interface *seems* to be legacy:
> http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/ioctl/hdio.txt
>
> Also see:
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/utils/util-linux/util-linux.git/tree/fdisks/fdisk.c
>
> I hope this helps a bit.
>
> --
> Mihai Donțu
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