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
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