On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 11:54:59AM +0200, Christian Damkjer George wrote: >Hi > >I am working on a tool which reads raw from a disk via cygwin's /dev/sdX >interface, which works fine. But I need to determine the size of the >disk preferably in sectors. I can not find a get ata identity >functionality in cygwin, but I can live without it if I could get the >disk size elsewhere. My disk is 40 Gb which is divided in to two >partitions on 20Gb each. "df" reports 19567136 and 20625392 1k-blocks >each, which is the correct size. But /proc/partitions says 313074216 and >330167880 which is about a factor 0.0625 of compared to linux. Why this >strange factor it seems like you accidently multiplied by 16.
The source code would either confirm or deny that wouldn't it? cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
