On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 08:48:43AM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
>
> $ time sudo grub-probe -t partmap /boot/grub
> pc
>
> real 0m0.469s
> user 0m0.000s
> sys 0m0.088s
>
> Not sure why /dev/hda is so slow though. Maybe it's a bug, but not an
> important one.
Actually I think we can do much better with our own simple program that uses
libparted. See attachment.
On my amd64 sid, compiled with -Os and stripped it just takes 5224 bytes.
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#include <parted/parted.h>
#include <stdio.h>
main (int argc, char **argv)
{
PedDevice *device;
PedDisk *disk;
if (argc != 2)
{
fprintf (stderr, "Usage: %s DEVICE\n", argv[0]);
exit (1);
}
device = ped_device_get (argv[1]);
if (!device)
exit (1);
disk = ped_disk_new (device);
if (!disk)
exit (1);
printf ("%s\n", disk->type->name);
}
