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.