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I'm trying to determine the size of a block device in a shell
script, and I'm having some trouble.
For a normal file:
hrm@vlad:vamos $ sudo stat -c "blocks: %b block size: %B I/O block size: %o total size: %s" COPYING
blocks: 40 block size: 512 I/O block size: 4096 total size: 18007
this is exactly what I wanted -- I get the block size, and the number
of blocks of the file. However, for a block device:
hrm@vlad:vamos $ sudo stat -c "blocks: %b block size: %B I/O block size: %o total size: %s" /dev/sda1
blocks: 0 block size: 512 I/O block size: 4096 total size: 0
Not quite what I wanted (and not entirely true). There's a -f
option to stat that talks about filesystems, but that doesn't seem to
work either:
hrm@vlad:vamos $ sudo stat -f -c "blocks: %b Block size: %s fundamental size: %S" /dev/loop0
blocks: 2560 Block size: 4096 fundamental size: 4096
/dev/loop0 in this case is a 512-byte file, so I don't think it
contains 2560 blocks of 4k each. (Actually, on investigation, it's
telling me about the filesystem that /dev/loop0 is held on... but
since the block devices I'm working with don't necessarily *have* a
filesystem yet, that's also less than useful).
The information I want appears to be in /sys/block/ but I can't see
how to find the right device, given that the device name I'm given may
be a symlink, or even a device node with a non-canonical name, so I
can't see that that would be useful.
Anyone got any ideas?
Hugo.
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