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
$
next prev 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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