Re: fdisk & LBA

On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 10:29:13PM +0300, Nanakos Chrysostomos wrote:
> Hi all,i want to retrieve the partition table of a primary extended
> partition.
> My MBR partition table ,says that the LBA Partition Start sector for the
> extended partition is 10281600.It is the same that i find with my C code
> and through fdisk usage.
> How can i use this value to seek(lseek) to this point through the main
> block file (/dev/hda or /dev/hdb) and read the partition table of the
> logical partition?

Multiply by the sector size (probably 512 bytes).

Len Sorensen
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