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Generate lists of devices and partitions from /proc/partitions? - DachshundDigital - Feb-28-2023
Generate list of devices and partitions, which includes blocks and names, from /proc/partitions?
For example this...
# cat /proc/partitions
179 0 30976000 mmcblk0
179 1 262144 mmcblk0p1
179 2 30709760 mmcblk0p2
8 0 156290904 sda
8 1 156289880 sda1
Resulting in this...
Disks: [(30976000, mmcblk0), (156290904, sda)]
Partitions: [(262144, mmcblk0p1), (30709760, mmcblk0p2), (156289880, sda1)]
RE: Generate lists of devices and partitions from /proc/partitions? - deanhystad - Feb-28-2023
Sounds like a homework assignment.
The trick is that /proc/partitions uses whitespace to look somewhat like a table. You cannot use split(' ') because that would give you something like this (based on running this code on my PC):
Output:['8', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '0', '', '', '39080664', 'sda']
['8', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '1', '', '', '', '', '524288', 'sda1']
['8', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '2', '', '', '38555335', 'sda2']