proc_partitions(5)

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version 6.20 · 10 versions
, in arch rolling, nixpkgs unstable

✨ proc_partitions(5) ✨

okay bestie, so this is a file formats manual page — it's proc_partitions(5), and it's literally the tiniest little page in the whole /proc universe but it's still iconic 🎀

💖 NAME 💖

/proc/partitions — major and minor numbers of partitions 👑

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

  • /proc/partitions — bestie, this file is giving receipts. It contains the major and minor numbers of each partition, plus the number of 1024-byte blocks, plus the partition name. That's it. That's the whole vibe. 🦋
no cap, if you ever needed to know which device node maps to which major:minor pair and how big it is in 1024-byte blocks, this is your girl 💅

🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

  • proc(5) — the mothership, the main character, go read her 🌈

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this little cutie comes to you from Linux man-pages 6.20, dated 2026-02-08 💜 mwah, go check your partitions, periodt 💖✨🎀

📦 where this page comes from
  • arch rolling: man-pages 6.20-1 · BSD-2-Clause AND BSD-3-Clause AND BSD-4.3TAHOE AND BSD-4-Clause-UC AND GPL-1.0-or-later AND GPL-2.0-only AND GPL-2.0-or-later AND GPL-3.0-or-later AND LGPL-3.0-linking-exception AND LGPL-3.0-or-later AND LicenseRef-Public-Domain AND LicenseRef-UltraPermissive AND Linux-man-pages-1-para AND Linux-man-pages-copyleft AND Linux-man-pages-copyleft-2-para AND Linux-man-pages-copyleft-var AND MIT AND Spencer-94
  • nixpkgs unstable: man-pages 6.20
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