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From: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
To: Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Disk geometry from /sys
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:57:15 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47FD3BBB.406@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <38b2ab8a0804091353h3725ce29s196e27e8b4f1ff56@mail.gmail.com>

Francis Moreau wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to know the geometry of my hard disk from a bash script
> and that's the reason I'm looking in /sys. The reason is that I'd like
> to figure out the size of a cylinder without doing a
> ioctl(bdev, HDIO_GETGEO, &geo)

$ DEV=/dev/sda
$ GEOM="`/sbin/hdparm -g $DEV | awk '{print $3}'`"
$ echo $GEOM
19457/255/63
$

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-04-09 21:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-09 20:53 Disk geometry from /sys Francis Moreau
2008-04-09 21:28 ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-04-09 21:52   ` Alan Cox
2008-04-09 22:16   ` Bernd Eckenfels
2008-04-10 14:52     ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-04-10 19:23   ` Francis Moreau
2008-04-09 21:57 ` Mark Lord [this message]
2008-04-10 19:05   ` Francis Moreau
2008-04-10 19:53     ` Mark Lord
2008-04-10 12:22 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2008-04-10 19:15   ` Francis Moreau
2008-04-10 13:58 ` Bill Davidsen
2008-04-14 12:57 ` Seewer Philippe
2008-04-15  7:40   ` Francis Moreau
2008-04-16  7:49     ` Seewer Philippe
2008-04-17 14:09       ` Francis Moreau
2008-04-17 14:49         ` Seewer Philippe
2008-04-18 13:22           ` Mark Lord
2008-04-18 13:37             ` Seewer Philippe
2008-04-22 20:11               ` Francis Moreau
2008-04-23  6:44                 ` Seewer Philippe
2008-04-23  6:56                   ` Francis Moreau
2008-04-22 20:16             ` Francis Moreau
2008-04-22 22:44               ` Mark Lord
2008-04-23  6:53                 ` Seewer Philippe
2008-04-23  7:02                 ` Francis Moreau
2008-04-23  9:33                   ` Seewer Philippe
2008-04-23 13:47                   ` Mark Lord
2008-04-22 20:10           ` Francis Moreau
2008-04-23  6:48             ` Seewer Philippe

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