MirBSD manpage: getrawpartition(3)

GETRAWPARTITION(3)         BSD Programmer's Manual          GETRAWPARTITION(3)

NAME

     getrawpartition - get the system "raw" partition

SYNOPSIS

     #include <util.h>

     int
     getrawpartition(void);

DESCRIPTION

     getrawpartition() returns the partition number ('a' == 0, 'b' == 1, ...)
     of the "raw" partition of the system's disks. The "raw" partition is de-
     fined as the partition which provides access to the entire disk, regard-
     less of the disk's partition map.

SEE ALSO

     getmaxpartitions(3), sysctl(3)

HISTORY

     The getrawpartition function call appeared in NetBSD 1.2.

MirBSD #10-current               May 15, 1996                                1