NAME
getlabelsector,
getlabeloffset
- get the sector number and offset of the disklabel
LIBRARY
System Utilities Library (libutil, -lutil)
SYNOPSIS
daddr_t
getlabelsector(void)
off_t
getlabeloffset(void)
DESCRIPTION
The
getlabelsector()
and
getlabeloffset()
functions return values which describe the exact on-disk location of the
disklabel(5)
on the current system, or -1 on error.
These functions supercede the hardcoded
LABELSECTOR
and
LABELOFFSET
definitions previously used to derive the location of the
disklabel(5).
SEE ALSO
sysctl(3),
disklabel(5)
HISTORY
The
getlabelsector()
and
getlabeloffset()
functions appeared in
NetBSD2.0.