On Sat, Oct 01, 2005 at 07:51:19PM +0200, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Saturday 01 October 2005 19:45, houghi wrote:
On Sat, Oct 01, 2005 at 07:17:48PM +0200, Anders Johansson wrote:
The way grub-install does it is
df `dirname filename| sed -n 's%.*\(/dev/[^ ]*\).*%\1%p'
I'm looking at the BIOS stuff in grub now to see if I can make a stand-alone utility out of it
I think I am going in circles here. The above (if you put a backtick in front of |, making it filename`| )
Well, I expressed myself badly. dirname is a command, but filename was meant to be replaced with whatever file you wanted to know the location of
OK.
tells me /dev/hdf3. That still does not show me hd3,2
No, but combine that with the device map and you're set
Indeed.
Would be handy if all could be done with one command
I'm working on it
I am working on some butt ugly bash script myself. Still a pity that there is not a build in command to do it with. houghi -- Quote correct (NL) http://www.briachons.org/art/quote/ Zitiere richtig (DE) http://www.afaik.de/usenet/faq/zitieren Quote correctly (EN) http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html