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From: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
To: Niraj Kumar <niraj17@iitbombay.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to read partition table
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 14:15:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031222131505.GA14766@win.tue.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FE6AE25.507@iitbombay.org>

On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 02:11:09PM +0530, Niraj Kumar wrote:

> Is there an ioctl command (or sys call) in the latest 2.6 kernel to read 
> the complete partition table
> from user space?

The syscall is called read().

If you want to see it done, look at partx in util-linux.


      reply	other threads:[~2003-12-22 13:31 UTC|newest]

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2003-12-22  8:41 How to read partition table Niraj Kumar
2003-12-22 13:15 ` Andries Brouwer [this message]

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