Package md does various things with mdadm.

Package partitioning allows creation of MBR and GPT partition tables and partitions, DESTROYING ANY EXISTING DATA.

Return a path for each non-virtual block device.

return name, size of storage devices.

like AllBlockDevs, but uses a filter function to limit the results.

return a BlkInfo for each blockdevice containing a filesystem we recognize.

IsDev returns true if given dev represents a physical device.

IsPart returns true if given dev is a partition.

PartNum returns the part number of a partition, or empty string.

PartParent returns the parent block device for the given partition.

given a dev like '/dev/sda', find device model stringfor sata, 'model' file includes vendor as well.

use ioctl to find dev size.

for sata, always returns ATAfor scsi, ???for usb, returns actual vendor.

SizeToleranceMatch returns true if actual value is within tolerance of desired value.Tolerance is expressed as an integer 1-100, representing a percent.

a function that returns false if given bi should be filtered out.

A function that returns true if the entry is to be kept.