Posix map fs path to syspath

Question

Is there a safe way to map a filesystem path to a /sys/block/ node.

For instance on my system (Ubuntu) my / path is mounted from /dev/disk/by-uuid/7f6a93a7-1e63-48a3-a7e3-b336a2f9dbf7 which is a symlink to /dev/sda1 which is a partition of /dev/sda which maps to /sys/block/sda

How do I get from:

/ -> /sys/block/sda

in a safe way that I can rely on to work across all distributions?

caskey · Accepted Answer · 2015-05-11T08:36:53.947

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fstat() on the file returns a struct stat which contains a field of type dev_t. There are macros which will extract the major and minor device numbers. Those uniquely identify a drive and partition on a system.

edited May 11 '15 at 08:36

answered May 11 '15 at 08:24

caskey

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Hi caskey. What macros? I don't understand how this gets me from / -> /sys/block/sda – Jakob Simon-Gaarde May 11 '15 at 08:35
Read the man page for fstat. – caskey May 11 '15 at 08:36
Thanks. So just to make sure I have understood this correct: If I use the major macro value and combine it with :0 I can map this to /sys/block/*/dev, right? – Jakob Simon-Gaarde May 11 '15 at 08:51
Yes the zeroth minor value is the device itself. – caskey May 11 '15 at 09:10

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 11 '15 at 19:09

Thanks to caskey for pointing me in the right direction. In case someone else needs the same functionality, here is the function that converts a path to a device:

#include <libudev.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <locale.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <string>

std::string getPhysicalDiskSerialNumber(const char *path) {
    struct stat s;
    char syspath[256];
    syspath[0] = '\0';
    stat(path,&s);
    sprintf(syspath,"/sys/dev/block/%d:%d",major(s.st_dev),minor(s.st_dev));

    struct udev *context = udev_new();
    struct udev_device *device = udev_device_new_from_syspath(context, syspath);
    const char *id = udev_device_get_property_value(device, "ID_SERIAL");
    std::string serial = id;

    // Cleanup
    udev_device_unref(device);
    udev_unref(context);
    return serial;
}

Posix map fs path to syspath

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