Re: Accessing odd last partition sector (was: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] mkntfs dirty volume marking)

[Andries B. <ae...@wi...>]

On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 01:38:51PM +0200, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote:

> > TODO.ntfsprogs conatins the following TODO item under mkntfs:
> >  - We don't know what the real last sector is, thus we mark the volume
> > dirty and the subsequent chkdsk (which will happen on reboot into
> > Windows automatically) recreates the backup boot sector if the Linux
> > kernel lied to us about the number of sectors.

The ioctl BLKGETSIZE64 will tell you the size (in bytes) of a block device.

Andries