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# 1  
Old 10-13-2009
getting number of disks in solaris
Friends,
i have used the following code to get the number of disks in solaris
Code:
echo | pfexec format | egrep -v "Searching|AVAILABLE|Specify|^$|@" | wc -l

is there a better way to get the same result
# 2  
Old 10-13-2009
/etc/mnttab has all of the mounted volumes and devices as well as /proc and /dev/fd
# 3  
Old 10-13-2009
Code:
cd /proc
bash-3.00# ls
0      118    12926  13537  17128  18485  2      217    23168  304    355    426    665    897    97
1      1198   13499  13538  18202  18508  206    220    23178  306    368    432    678    898
1023   120    13505  13539  18205  18735  210    226    234    327    395    433    679    9
112    12357  13529  13668  18209  18738  215    227    237    331    396    489    7      960
1167   12923  13533  17113  18472  18742  216    228    3      3458   397    4990   710    963
bash-3.00# cat /etc/mnttab
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0       /       ufs     rw,intr,largefiles,logging,xattr,onerror=panic,dev=800000       1254981644
/devices        /devices        devfs   dev=51c0000     1254981638
ctfs    /system/contract        ctfs    dev=5200001     1254981638
proc    /proc   proc    dev=5240000     1254981638
mnttab  /etc/mnttab     mntfs   dev=5280001     1254981638
swap    /etc/svc/volatile       tmpfs   xattr,dev=52c0001       1254981638
objfs   /system/object  objfs   dev=5300001     1254981638
/platform/sun4u-us3/lib/libc_psr/libc_psr_hwcap1.so.1   /platform/sun4u-us3/lib/libc_psr.so.1   lofs    dev=800000      1254981643
/platform/sun4u-us3/lib/sparcv9/libc_psr/libc_psr_hwcap1.so.1   /platform/sun4u-us3/lib/sparcv9/libc_psr.so.1   lofs    dev=800000      1254981643
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s5       /var    ufs     rw,intr,largefiles,logging,xattr,onerror=panic,dev=800005       1254981645
swap    /tmp    tmpfs   xattr,dev=52c0002       1254981645
swap    /var/run        tmpfs   xattr,dev=52c0003       1254981645
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s3       /export/home    ufs     rw,intr,largefiles,logging,xattr,onerror=panic,dev=800003       1254981648
-hosts  /net    autofs  nosuid,indirect,ignore,nobrowse,dev=5500001     1254981651
auto_home       /home   autofs  indirect,ignore,nobrowse,dev=5500002    1254981651
amsun1:vold(pid327)     /vol    nfs     ignore,noquota,dev=54c0001      1254981653
ovnis.ind.hp.com:/home  /ovnis  nfs     rw,xattr,dev=54c0002    1255081083

# 4  
Old 10-13-2009
from what I see, you have one physical disk, three slices of which is being used in /, /var, /export/home mountpoints

also - try to use format command
# 5  
Old 10-13-2009
Code:
iostat -En

is commonly use to get disk information on Solaris.
# 6  
Old 11-09-2009
get # of disks
this works well:

format < /dev/null | grep c[1-9]

and you get the list of disks already numbered for you.
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