GETDISKBYNAME(3)

🌸 NAME 🌸

bestie, welcome to the getdiskbyname(3) page — it's from the Library Functions Manual, and it's literally about this:

getdiskbyname — get generic disk description by its name 🫶

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💖 LIBRARY 💖

Standard C Library (libc, -lc) ✨

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

okay so here's the summoning spell, copy it exactly:

#include <sys/disklabel.h>

struct disklabel *
getdiskbyname(const char *name);

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so getdiskbyname() takes a disk name — like rm03 — and returns a prototype disk label describing its geometry information and the standard disk partition tables 💅✨. that's the whole vibe.

all of that info is obtained from the disktab(5) file, no cap 📁💖

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

go read these too, bestie:

• disktab(5)
• disklabel(8)

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👑 HISTORY 👑

getdiskbyname() appeared in 4.3BSD ⭐ iconic origin story, honestly.

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and that's the tea 🍓: this page is from Debian, dated June 4, 1993 — mwah 💋