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Old 08-29-2005
Hard Disk Check
How can we check the number of hard disks (both internal & external) in a server, their capacity and serial number
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Old 08-29-2005
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Originally Posted by muneebr
How can we check the number of hard disks (both internal & external) in a server, their capacity and serial number
linux, ide disk
Code:
ls -al /dev/hd*

freebsd, ide disk
Code:
ls -al /dev/ad*

the space
Code:
df -h

or http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/i386/fdisk.txt
You can use smartmontools for detailed info
http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
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Old 08-29-2005
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Originally Posted by muneebr
How can we check the number of hard disks (both internal & external) in a server, their capacity and serial number
It's not really possible to answer this question without knowing what OS and hardware you are asking about. If you want to get a meaningful reply post the output of "uname -a"
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Old 08-30-2005
output uname -a
SunOS sys_441a 5.8 Generic_108528-22 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V240
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Old 08-30-2005
iostat
Try: iostat -En
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Old 08-30-2005
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Originally Posted by polaris
iostat -En
this will give some of the information you are looking for, but it it is simpler to use the format command, if the harware is correctly configured then everything should show up, if you have external drives and you don't have the drivers and/or patches correctly installed it will not.
 
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