Date: Sat, 07 Mar 1998 13:50:45 -0800 From: Greg Shenaut <greg@bogslab.ucdavis.edu> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to determine raw disk layout? Message-ID: <199803072151.NAA11174@myrtle1.bogs.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 07 Mar 1998 12:54:07 PST."
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As you were--I found it: my old friend disklabel(8) spits out the needed info quite nicely. -Greg Greg Shenaut cleopede: >I am writing a script which needs to figure out the physical >locations of each of the /dev device names located on each disk. >That is, for each of the names, list the absolute offset in blocks, >the size in blocks, and perhaps the partition type code and some >other info. The script is going to use this information to copy >selected regions for the purposes of baking them up or cloning >them, so it needs to be accurate and noninteractive. If it can >be done using C library routines, this would also be OK. > >How can I get this information? > >-Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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