Search Device Status in GNU Linux

Tirmazi · #1 (**permalink**) 09-21-2009

I have an old PC with mirrored disk arrays. One of the hot swapable disk drives is bad and needs to be replaced, I know this because the drives' light has turned amber.

This server has Linux installed. I am not familiar with Linux, but I need this servers because it is running Postfix and is a relay host for many of our production Solaris Machines.

Could anyone please guide me on how to see drive status through the command line and pinpoint which hard drive has failed .

#dmesg does not give me a clue and #iostat -en command does not work, or atleast I donot know how to use it.

Quote:

[root@webserver root]# uname -srvmpio
Linux 2.4.24 #2 SMP Thu Feb 12 13:32:01 EST 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Quote:

[myname@webserver]$ df -k
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/cciss/c0d0p1 4127076 900092 3017340 23% /
none 775932 0 775932 0% /dev/shm
/dev/cciss/c0d0p5 6190664 1434904 4441292 25% /usr
/dev/cciss/c0d0p2 28898108 16688772 10741400 61% /var/lib/mysql
/dev/cciss/c0d0p3 28708276 5670832 21579144 21% /var/spool

thanks

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