Re: [PATCH] [2.5.45] Extended /proc/partitions

[Alexander Viro]

On Sat, 2 Nov 2002, Petr Baudis wrote:

>   Hello,
> 
>   this patch (against 2.5.45) extends contents of /proc/partitions by starting
> offset of each partition. This can be terribly useful if you (or someone who
> then passed you the computer for a repair) by some mistake over-dd'd the
> partition table on a disk, but the system is still up. I know that you can also
> dig this out by some ioctl()s, but this can make life a lot easier for those
> who don't know C or can't dig the ioctl codes from the kernel source code.
> 
>   Note that it's possibly totally flawed (I don't know anything about this
> piece of code), but it looks to work ok.

It's already exported in files in driverfs.  No need to duplicate in
/proc/partitions.