On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 02:47:58PM +0530, Rabbul Nawaz wrote:
Thanks for the quick respose. Installing libparted, and all its
dependencies
including all the libraries inside the rootfs environment would
definetely
increase the size of the rootfs. Moreover it would require a static
compilation. Is there any other way, by which I can just get the
partition-label information which is lighter than using libparted.
parted actually reads data from the partition to get at the labels.
AFAIK, this data is not available through the kernel.