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Re: ioctl equivalent to DIOCGSECTORSIZE in FreeBSD?
k.heinz%maerzehn.kh-22.de@localhost (Klaus Heinz) writes:
>Michael van Elst wrote:
>> You will need -current to use a filesystem except maybe for msdosfs.
>I do not understand what you say here. For what do I _need_ -current?
>I surely want to get the sector size on -current but it also has to work
>on NetBSD-4 and -5.
You can get sector size this way on NetBSD-4 too. However, you won't
be able to create or mount a standard filesystem on media with
sector size != 512. Access to the raw device should be fine.
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