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Re: Size difference reported by /proc/partitions and lseek(SEEK_END) on block device


On Dec  7 19:12, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Dec  7 11:17, Loh, Joe wrote:
> > major minor  #blocks  name
> > 
> >     8     0  78124095 sda
> >     8     1  15358108 sda1
> >     8     2    104422 sda2
> >     8     3  16386300 sda3
> 
> The reason that /proc/partition contains wrong information is that
> the /proc/partition information uses an old, deprecated IOCTL call
> to evaluate the disk size by # of cylinders, # of tracks per sektor,
> etc.  I didn't fix that so far but it's not overly complicated, so
> stay tuned.

This should be fixed now, too, in CVS.  Please try the next developers
snapshot.


Corinna

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