NAME

getmaxpartitions — get the maximum number of partitions allowed per disk

LIBRARY

System Utilities Library (libutil, -lutil)

SYNOPSIS

#include <util.h>

int
getmaxpartitions(void);

DESCRIPTION

getmaxpartitions() returns the number of partitions that are allowed per disk on the system, or -1 in case of an error, setting the global errno variable. The possible values for errno are the same as in sysctl(3).

SEE ALSO

getrawpartition(3), sysctl(3)

HISTORY

The getmaxpartitions() function call appeared in NetBSD 1.2.