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authorKarel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>2007-05-30 17:57:30 +0200
committerKarel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>2007-05-31 15:02:13 +0200
commit121dba8508d67a17623329d4be5f8522757cca79 (patch)
tree2d4c3ea62124fa137f6c2b61ad4cc831973db931 /fdisk/disksize.c
parentbf8df99191b726332b5c2f361cac27fe2fa85df8 (diff)
downloadutil-linux-old-121dba8508d67a17623329d4be5f8522757cca79.tar.gz
fdisk: cleanup full disk detection code
The full disk (e.g. /dev/hda) detection code is duplicated on two places and the code doesn't work correctly with devices which don't support HDIO_GETGEO. Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fdisk/disksize.c')
-rw-r--r--fdisk/disksize.c33
1 files changed, 33 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fdisk/disksize.c b/fdisk/disksize.c
index 28b8df0a..cc00e933 100644
--- a/fdisk/disksize.c
+++ b/fdisk/disksize.c
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <ctype.h>
+#include <sys/types.h>
+#include <sys/stat.h>
+#include <fcntl.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include "common.h"
@@ -19,3 +25,30 @@ int disksize(int fd, unsigned long long *sectors) {
*sectors = (b >> 9);
return 0;
}
+
+int
+is_probably_full_disk(char *name) {
+#ifdef HDIO_GETGEO
+ struct hd_geometry geometry;
+ int fd, i = 0;
+
+ fd = open(name, O_RDONLY);
+ if (fd >= 0) {
+ i = ioctl(fd, HDIO_GETGEO, &geometry);
+ close(fd);
+ }
+ if (i==0)
+ return (fd >= 0 && geometry.start == 0);
+#endif
+ /*
+ * The "silly heuristic" is still sexy for us, because
+ * for example Xen doesn't implement HDIO_GETGEO for virtual
+ * block devices (/dev/xvda).
+ *
+ * -- kzak@redhat.com (23-Feb-2006)
+ */
+ while (*name)
+ name++;
+ return !isdigit(name[-1]);
+}
+