May 24, 2006 GETRAWPARTITION 3

### NAME

getrawpartition - get the system ``raw'' partition

### LIBRARY

System Utilities Library (libutil, -lutil)

### SYNOPSIS

```int` getrawpartition(```void`)

### DESCRIPTION

getrawpartition(``) returns the partition number ( `a' == 0, `b' == 1, ...) of the ``raw'' partition of the system's disks, or -1 in case of an error, setting the global errno variable. The possible values for errno are the same as in sysctl(3). The ``raw'' partition is defined as the partition which provides access to the entire disk, regardless of the disk's partition map.

### SEE ALSO

getmaxpartitions(3), sysctl(3)

### HISTORY

The getrawpartition function call appeared in NetBSD1.2.