How to check which type of storage is used in unix?


 
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# 8  
Old 10-14-2011
As I have already mentioned above,

Code:
# echo | format

Will show you disks and luns that are avaiable for use on your system.
# 9  
Old 10-15-2011
@Paragon1970: I'm asking the open poster what precise information he is looking for. By the way, your solution unnecessarily requires being root.
# 10  
Old 10-15-2011
@jlliagre: my previous post was not in response to yours but rather to the original poster.
Indeed it does require root. If the original poster does not have access to root either directly or say via sudo then he is limited in finding information regarding the underlying hardware present on this system.
# 11  
Old 10-15-2011
What information provided by "echo | format" do you think is not available to an unprivileged user ?
# 12  
Old 10-16-2011
@Jlliagre, I'm not here to get into a childish pedantic tit for tat about what is or is not possible. I offered up a solution in good faith and right or wrongly I presumed root access was available to the original poster. After all his question did not include the term as 'non privileged user'
I have no further interest in this thread considering the original poster has appeared to have lost interest in his own question.

But to your question one could issue a an 'iostat -Eni' as non privileged.
A 'grep disk /var/adm/messages' will show some details also.
A 'kstat -c disk' will display configured disk instances and there statistics.
# 13  
Old 10-17-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by ningy
Code:
format

command will show you the details.
But you should have root access or a privileged user to be able to run that command..
yeah i tried that but in vain..as i dont have root access apart from access to that corresponding to that server.

Any other option i could try it?

---------- Post updated at 03:04 PM ---------- Previous update was at 02:59 PM ----------

i tried the above options suggested by all of you but in vain. any other alternative to get that info?
# 14  
Old 10-17-2011
What is "that info" ?
Please tell precisely, with an example, what information you are expecting.
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