Re: Q: ioctl BLKGETSIZE return value units?

From: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
Date: Sat May 19 2001 - 14:01:35 EDT

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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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