On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 06:57:31AM +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Daniel O'Connor" writes
> :
>
> >On Wednesday 06 June 2007 07:44, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> >> : '$1~/\\dev\\/(aacd|ad|afd|amrd|ar|da|idad|ipsd|mfid|mlxd|twed)/ &&
> >> : \ $2~/\\/$/ {print substr($1, 1, index($1, \"s\") - 1)}'
> >> : /etc/fstab`");
> >> :
> >> : where the regex is built from every device name in device_names
> >> : (which even then doesn't cater for GEOM where devices might be
> >> : called anything). This is something that would require a build
> >> : tool, which is why I haven't done it yet.
> >>
> >> "mmcsd" is also a disk.
> >
> >Why not iterate over the output of sysctl -n kern.disks?
>
> Wrong answer.
>
> Right answer: Why not read it from sysctl kern.geom.confxml
That sounds like the right thing to do, but that sysctl returns nothing
on my RELENG_6 system; why would that be?
Ceri
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