Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:57:15 -0400 | From | Mark Lord <> | Subject | Re: Disk geometry from /sys |
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Francis Moreau wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to know the geometry of my hard disk from a bash script > and that's the reason I'm looking in /sys. The reason is that I'd like > to figure out the size of a cylinder without doing a > ioctl(bdev, HDIO_GETGEO, &geo)
$ DEV=/dev/sda $ GEOM="`/sbin/hdparm -g $DEV | awk '{print $3}'`" $ echo $GEOM 19457/255/63 $
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