get_gendisk(9)

get_gendisk9

Get partitioning information for a given device

Usage

struct gendisk * get_gendisk(dev_t devt, int * partno);

Arguments

devt

device to get partitioning information for

partno

returned partition index

Overview

This function gets the structure containing partitioning information for the given device devt.

Releases

4 releases since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); the text changed 3 times.

  1. 6.0
  2. 7
  3. 8
  4. 9

From linux-manual-4.9 4.9.228-1 in Debian 9 (Stretch). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.