How to read partition table

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* How to read partition table
@ 2003-12-22  8:41 Niraj Kumar
  2003-12-22 13:15 ` Andries Brouwer
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From: Niraj Kumar @ 2003-12-22  8:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel

Hi,

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

Niraj


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* Re: How to read partition table
  2003-12-22  8:41 How to read partition table Niraj Kumar
@ 2003-12-22 13:15 ` Andries Brouwer
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From: Andries Brouwer @ 2003-12-22 13:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Niraj Kumar; +Cc: linux-kernel

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.


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