03-20-2014
/dev/hd* /dev/sd* is a very linux-specific answer. Not all systems use those device names. For that matter, even Linux doesn't use those all the time -- some RAID cards will give funny names. In Linux, you can check for all block devices in /sys/class/block, and filter out irrelevant ones by looking deeper in /sys/class/block/[device].
Any good answer will have to be system-specific, because this is a management question, not a system environment one.
Last edited by Corona688; 03-20-2014 at 04:30 PM..
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RAW(8) System Administration RAW(8)
NAME
raw - bind a Linux raw character device
SYNOPSIS
raw /dev/raw/raw<N> <major> <minor>
raw /dev/raw/raw<N> /dev/<blockdev>
raw -q /dev/raw/raw<N>
raw -qa
DESCRIPTION
raw is used to bind a Linux raw character device to a block device. Any block device may be used: at the time of binding, the device
driver does not even have to be accessible (it may be loaded on demand as a kernel module later).
raw is used in two modes: it either sets raw device bindings, or it queries existing bindings. When setting a raw device, /dev/raw/raw<N>
is the device name of an existing raw device node in the filesystem. The block device to which it is to be bound can be specified either
in terms of its major and minor device numbers, or as a path name /dev/<blockdev> to an existing block device file.
The bindings already in existence can be queried with the -q option, which is used either with a raw device filename to query that one
device, or with the -a option to query all bound raw devices.
Unbinding can be done by specifying major and minor 0.
Once bound to a block device, a raw device can be opened, read and written, just like the block device it is bound to. However, the raw
device does not behave exactly like the block device. In particular, access to the raw device bypasses the kernel's block buffer cache
entirely: all I/O is done directly to and from the address space of the process performing the I/O. If the underlying block device driver
can support DMA, then no data copying at all is required to complete the I/O.
Because raw I/O involves direct hardware access to a process's memory, a few extra restrictions must be observed. All I/Os must be cor-
rectly aligned in memory and on disk: they must start at a sector offset on disk, they must be an exact number of sectors long, and the
data buffer in virtual memory must also be aligned to a multiple of the sector size. The sector size is 512 bytes for most devices.
OPTIONS
-q, --query
Set query mode. raw will query an existing binding instead of setting a new one.
-a, --all
With -q , specify that all bound raw devices should be queried.
-h, --help
Display help text and exit.
-V, --version
Display version information and exit.
BUGS
The Linux dd(1) command should be used without the bs= option, or the blocksize needs to be a multiple of the sector size of the device
(512 bytes usually), otherwise it will fail with "Invalid Argument" messages (EINVAL).
Raw I/O devices do not maintain cache coherency with the Linux block device buffer cache. If you use raw I/O to overwrite data already in
the buffer cache, the buffer cache will no longer correspond to the contents of the actual storage device underneath. This is deliberate,
but is regarded either a bug or a feature depending on who you ask!
NOTES
Rather than using raw devices applications should prefer open(2) devices, such as /dev/sda1, with the O_DIRECT flag.
AUTHOR
Stephen Tweedie (sct@redhat.com)
AVAILABILITY
The raw command is part of the util-linux package and is available from https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
util-linux August 1999 RAW(8)