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GETRAWPARTITION(3)        OpenBSD 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
     defined as the partition which provides access to the entire disk, re-
     gardless of the disk's partition map.

SEE ALSO
     getmaxpartitions(3),  sysctl(3)

HISTORY
     The getrawpartition function call appeared in NetBSD 1.2.

OpenBSD 2.6                      May 15, 1996                                1

Source: OpenBSD 2.6 man pages. Copyright: Portions are copyrighted by BERKELEY
SOFTWARE DESIGN, INC., The Regents of the University of California, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Free Software Foundation, FreeBSD Inc., and others.



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