How many drives?

[Charles Curley]

On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 08:53:34AM -0600, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
> 
>    What's a quick (even dirty) way of finding out how many HDs a system 
> has?  Assuming that:
> 
>       a) Not all of them are actively used, so they wouldn't be in
>          /etc/fstab (or visible in df)
> 
>       b) /var/log/dmesg isn't available for scanning
> 
>       c) /var/log/messages isn't available for scanning
> 
>       d) And access to the boxes is (somewhat) restricted - they're in 
> racks, and I really don't feel like yanking each and every one)

"fdisk -l" requires root access and will give you a list of hard
drives and their partitions found. Of course if a hard drive has no
power, is disconnected, etc. it may be pysically in the machine but
fdisk won't find it.

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