Re^2: get the size of a special device (drive)

Unfortunately what I am writing is a filesystem... But I went browsing through /proc and found /proc/partitions, when I cat that it shows partitions and sizes in blocks (1024 bytes each I believe) Is this standard and reliable from linux system to linux system?

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Re^3: get the size of a special device (drive) by blazar (Canon) on May 30, 2007 at 21:39 UTC
Unfortunately what I am writing is a filesystem... But I went browsing through /proc and found /proc/partitions, when I cat that it shows partitions and sizes in blocks (1024 bytes each I believe) Is this standard and reliable from linux system to linux system? I think something changed between 2.4 and 2.6, but I wouldn't take my own word as the ultimate Truth™ as I'm far from being an expert...	[reply]

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Re^3: get the size of a special device (drive)
by blazar (Canon) on May 30, 2007 at 21:39 UTC

Unfortunately what I am writing is a filesystem... But I went browsing through /proc and found /proc/partitions, when I cat that it shows partitions and sizes in blocks (1024 bytes each I believe) Is this standard and reliable from linux system to linux system?

I think something changed between 2.4 and 2.6, but I wouldn't take my own word as the ultimate Truth™ as I'm far from being an expert...

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