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From: jeremy@perf2.asd.sgi.com (Jeremy Higdon)
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Subject: Re: bug in reading from disk partitions
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Date: 10 Dec 90 04:21:51 GMT
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In article <1990Dec3.151353.21737@alias.uucp>, chk%alias@csri.toronto.edu (C. Harald Koch) writes:
> In <76400@sgi.sgi.com> jeremy@perf2.asd.sgi.com (Jeremy Higdon) writes:
> 
> >The partition information is in the disk label (the first 512 bytes of
> >the volume header (??????vh) partition).  See /usr/include/sys/dvh.h and
> >vh(7m) for more info.
> 
> Do you have any idea how non-portable that is? It depends too much on both
> the hardware platform and the OS version.
> 
> [ . . . .]

The question I was responding to was how to get partition sizes.
The preferred way, by the way, is to use the DIOCGETVH ioctl, as
Dave Olson pointed out later.

I was not commenting on the merits of returning short reads vs.
errors at the end of a partition.