Discovering current MTD partition

Artem Bityutskiy dedekind1 at gmail.com
Wed Apr 27 01:31:02 EDT 2011


On Tue, 2011-04-26 at 16:43 -0700, Umar Qureshey wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I searched this list's archive but did not see anything pertinent.
> 
> I was wondering if there is a way to find out what the currently active mtd
> partition is.  In my system, I have a few flash partitions for my file
> system and the kernel boots with the partition that is specified on the
> kernel command line.  Aside from scanning /proc/cmdline, is there a way to
> programmatically ascertain which mtd partition is active *now*.  
> I need to find this information within a Python script but really if it can
> be done in C (perhaps a syscall?), it's all I need.

What does active mean? Anyway, there is /proc/mtd at your disposal.

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)




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