Re: how to map "/dev/root" to "/proc/partitions" entry in user prog?

Miquel van Smoorenburg (miquels@cistron.nl)
Tue, 14 May 2002 21:26:47 +0000 (UTC)

In article <Pine.LNX.4.44.0205141554240.2160-100000@spaz.localdomain>,
Jeff Meininger <jeffm@boxybutgood.com> wrote:
>How can I reliably map /dev/root to the corresponding entry in
>/proc/partitions?

The first two lines in /proc/partitions are major/minor of the
device. Simply stat("/", &st) and use st.st_dev (and the major/minor
macros in glibc)

>Please Cc me in your response.

I'm reading and posting this on a mail2news gateway, sorry.

Mike.

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