From: lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen)
To: Nanakos Chrysostomos <nanakos@wired-net.gr>
Cc: linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: fdisk & LBA
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 15:45:31 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050812194531.GL31019@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47285.62.1.10.150.1123874953.squirrel@webmail.wired-net.gr>
On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 10:29:13PM +0300, Nanakos Chrysostomos wrote:
> Hi all,i want to retrieve the partition table of a primary extended
> partition.
> My MBR partition table ,says that the LBA Partition Start sector for the
> extended partition is 10281600.It is the same that i find with my C code
> and through fdisk usage.
> How can i use this value to seek(lseek) to this point through the main
> block file (/dev/hda or /dev/hdb) and read the partition table of the
> logical partition?
Multiply by the sector size (probably 512 bytes).
Len Sorensen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-12 19:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-11 12:23 __init() raja
2005-08-11 12:47 ` __init() linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2005-08-12 19:29 ` fdisk & LBA Nanakos Chrysostomos
2005-08-12 19:45 ` Lennart Sorensen [this message]
2005-08-12 20:48 ` Nanakos Chrysostomos
2005-08-12 21:11 ` Lennart Sorensen
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