Number of hard disks/drives info?

mali · 01-10-2005, 02:55 PM

Hi,

I have a server with Linux Ent. 3, and I'm trying to find out how many hard disks does it have (thru command prompt). Is there a command that can do get this info?

Please help.

Thank you!

p.s. I tried searching for "hard disk" but didn't find any info.

acid_kewpie · 01-10-2005, 03:03 PM

there's no program that will give you an output saying "this machine has 3 IDE drives and 2 SCSI drives", but there are a billion (not literally) quick fixes... just run "fdisk -l" and you should get a list of every partition on every drive on the system.

another way is to look at the contents of /proc/ide/. each occurence of hd? or sd? will be an ide or scsi device respectively.

bulliver · 01-10-2005, 03:06 PM

Heres one way...works with ide drives, not sure of scsi:

Code:

# dmesg | grep hd | grep DISK | wc -l

OK, here we go:

Code:

# echo $( dmesg | grep hd | grep DISK | wc -l ) "ide drives " \ 
$( dmesg | grep sd | grep DISK | wc -l ) "scsi drives"

(That should be on one line...I just hate having to scroll horizontally) This is probably not infallable...I don't know how scsi drives identify themselves in dmesg, and you may get a few false positives...

mali · 01-10-2005, 03:59 PM

Thanks guys, I'll give it a try.

Very appreciated.