I have partition structure like :
$ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda6 51606140 16939248 34142692 34% /
/dev/sda5 495844 72969 397275 16% /boot
/dev/sda7 113022648 57515608 49765728 50% /home
/dev/sda8 113022648 57515608 49765728 4% /mnt
while parsing directories content using readdir() - how to find out which file resides on what device?
readdir() invoked from root directory and parses the file name and prints its size.
like from device : /dev/sda6 and list the filenames under that partition.
When it reads contents from /home - it should display reading content from /dev/sda7 and list filenames
Please let me know,if you need more details/info
There is a st_dev member in struct stat, it should uniquely identify one partition.
Example in bash:
stat ~/.vimrc
File: `/home2//leonard/.vimrc' -> `local-priv/vimrc'
Size: 16 Blocks: 0 IO Block: 4096 symbolic link
Device: 802h/2050d Inode: 6818899 Links: 1
Access: (0777/lrwxrwxrwx) Uid: ( 1024/ leonard) Gid: ( 1024/ leonard)
Access: 2012-06-22 16:36:45.341371003 +0300
Modify: 2012-06-22 16:36:45.341371003 +0300
Change: 2012-06-22 16:36:45.341371003 +0300
The stat utility does no additional magic. Here is strace -vvv output:
lstat64("/home2//leonard/.vimrc", {st_dev=makedev(8, 2), st_ino=6818899, st_mode=S_IFLNK|0777, st_nlink=1, st_uid=1024, st_gid=1024, st_blksize=4096, st_blocks=0, st_size=16, st_atime=2012/06/22-16:36:45, st_mtime=2012/06/22-16:36:45, st_ctime=2012/06/22-16:36:45}) = 0
0x0802 is major 8(sd) partition 2, so /dev/sda2
In order to map this to actual partitions you can iterate /proc/mounts and stat all the devices (first column). The contents of /proc/mounts is just like the output of mount(1) except it comes directly from the kernel. Some distros symlink /etc/mtab to /proc/mounts.
Or you can parse /proc/partitions:
$ cat /proc/partitions
major minor #blocks name
8 0 976762584 sda
8 1 3998720 sda1
8 2 972762112 sda2
Of course /dev/sda might not actually exist, the device could be using a long udev name like /dev/disk/by-uuid/c4181217-a753-4cf3-b61d-190ee3981a3f. Major/Minor numbers should be a reliable unique identifier of a partition.
you can just do
df <file_name>
that will give you the device and partition for the particuar file
