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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: how to find size of special file
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>How do you find out a size of a raw or cooked disk partition?  Neither

There's nothing better than a disklabel ioctl (DIOCGDINFO).  See the newfs
sources.

Bruce