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

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Re^3: get the size of a special device (drive) by Joost (Canon) on May 30, 2007 at 22:28 UTC
I have no idea. It looked interesting, but I can't seem to find any real info on what the numbers in /sys/block//size mean at all. Personally, I'd go with `du -h` or `du -B 1` (for bytes) "What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"*	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: get the size of a special device (drive) by blazar (Canon) on May 30, 2007 at 22:35 UTC
Personally, I'd go with `du -h` or `du -B 1` (for bytes) But AFAICT du is for mounted filesystems. He was asking about raw devices. I suppose the answer is somewhere in the docs for sysfs. (The kernel's?)	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^5: get the size of a special device (drive) by Joost (Canon) on May 30, 2007 at 22:41 UTC
True enough, but I still can't seem to find any docs on /sys/block//size. A simple `grep -ri sys .\|grep -i size` (in the /usr/src/linux/Documentation dir) doesn't seem to turn up anything useful. update:* Also, the /sys/bock//size entries seem to refer to full drive sizes. There's nothing in there referring to partitions. That might or might not be interesting to the OP. "What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"*	[reply] [d/l]
Re^6: get the size of a special device (drive) by blazar (Canon) on May 31, 2007 at 07:58 UTC
Re^4: get the size of a special device (drive) by exodist (Monk) on May 31, 2007 at 00:18 UTC
unfortunately du requires the filesystem to be mounted, not an option in this case :-(	[reply]