Hi Which posix function we can use to detect the partition type? thanks from Peter ( snipped-for-privacy@hotmail.com)
posix , detect partition type
May 15, 2006
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POSIX does not say anything about partitions or partition type.
Regards Manish Regmi
There is nothing for POSIX to do with partitions but you check this out, Migth be this is what you are actually looking for :
formatting link
Cheers, Sandeepksinha
whats wrong with plain old "fdisk -l" having read the available drives from dmsmg or proc ?
Well i think, he wants to use it inside the program. So, issuing something on a command line is totally a different issue. Well, it would be quite costly that way and quite comlex at the same time, involving output redirection and all those stuffs.
Cheers, Sandeepksinha.
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