May 24, 2006 GETMAXPARTITIONS 3

### NAME

getmaxpartitions - get the maximum number of partitions allowed per disk

### LIBRARY

System Utilities Library (libutil, -lutil)

### SYNOPSIS

```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 NetBSD1.2.