command to identify drives

yusufs · 09-18-2008, 04:01 PM

Dear all,

Is there any command to identify the local drives in the machine,san drives and tape drives ...

Thanks
Yusuf

David1357 · 09-18-2008, 05:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by yusufs

Is there any command to identify the local drives in the machine,san drives and tape drives

Most people use "fdisk -l". From the man page for fdisk

Code:

       -l     List the partition tables for the specified
              devices and then exit.  If no devices are given,
              those mentioned in proc/partitions  (if that exists)
              are used.

neilcpp · 09-18-2008, 05:07 PM

well you could type: dmesg - this shows the devices - and other things - that the operating system has detected.

you could also see what filesystems / devices are actually mounted by using the mount command with the right option (see man mount).

i dont know of a single command line statement, other than mount with the appropriate option, that will do this.