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On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 10:09:11PM -0400, Nathaniel McCallum wrote: |
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> Hey, I was hoping you would jump in. The script is for the installer |
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> and it is to detect and return a list of all the partitionable devices |
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> on the system (hard drives, etc). What are your suggestions? |
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Oh, that's simple: |
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/sys/block/* |
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> The current iteration relies on /proc/partitions and minor/major |
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> numbers, the second of which I would like to do without (being that |
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> kernel major/minors are diappearing). |
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They aren't dissapearing, just not as meaningful to userspace anymore. |
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You will need to get them from: |
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/sys/block/*/dev |
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and they will be in the form: |
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major:minor |
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Sound good? |
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thanks, |
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greg k-h |
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