Re: Q: ioctl BLKGETSIZE return value units?

Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
Sat, 19 May 2001 20:01:35 +0200 (MET DST)

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> What are the units of the return value of the BLKGETSIZE ioctl on Linux?

Sectors of size 512.

> or is it in units of sector size bytes as returned by BLKSSZGET

No.

Andries
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