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ok it is still simple & easy to read :) i can delete my previous post then

A small modification:
(head -2 infile; tail +3 infile | sort -t: -k1) > infile.sorted
or even better:
(head -2; sort -t: -k1) < infile > infile.sorted
if your "head" doesn't do buffer read,...

head -2 infile > infile.sorted
tail +3 infile | sort >> infile.sorted(if "tail +3" notation not supported on your plateform, you can give a try to a "tail -n +3" instead)

Afaik sort has no option on which line it should start or which to bypass and just print them. It would be used in conjunction with other commands. Examples:

# in bash:
F=infile; head -2 $F; tail...

Cameron,

Hardware raid or Software raid is in question here?

SW raid, use vgdisplay, lvdisplay and so on as already given.

BL860C also comes with a SAS raid controller, there should also be...

Or you can drill down for this information using SAM

use the vgdisplay command. see man page for details.