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Device Manager equivalent? I want to check HDDs

Hi Guys,

I got a linux box at work to which I SSH. It doesn't have a GUI just CLI.

I want to know how many HDDs and their type/size are physically in the box, I'm sure it's possible but how?

Thank you :)

Choco

As root:

Code:

fdisk -l

ah cool!

So every time I see a line such as:

Disk /dev/sda: 40.0 GB, 40000000000 bytes

I assume it's a physical HDD?

I can see the following:

Disk /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc: 257 MB, 257949696 bytes
8 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1015 cylinders

Disk /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc: 20.4 GB, 20416757760 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2482 cylinders

Disk /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/disc: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders

another way to view the drive information is with lshw.

lshw -C disk

note: this does NOT show how the drives are partitioned.

yep, but I've never seen those "target/lun0" things b4. Are they scsi? What distro are you using?

If you tell me how to find the distro from the CLI I will tell you :)

Code:

cat /etc/*release

should work depending on the distro you have, lol.

Quote:

Originally Posted by farslayer (Post 3277162)

another way to view the drive information is with lshw.

lshw -C disk

note: this does NOT show how the drives are partitioned.

This command doesn't work on my box ~_~

Quote:

Originally Posted by CRC123 (Post 3277185)

Code:

cat /etc/*release

should work depending on the distro you have, lol.

hehe.. man you're good!

here it is:
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13

Cool. I don't have the lshw command either (it may only come standard with Debian or maybe farslayer installed it manually). but anyways, anything that fdisk -l prints will only be physical disks and it should list the partitions on that disk under it. If it doesn't, they may be unrecognized partitions(lvm, raid, etc).

Quote:

Originally Posted by chococharlie (Post 3277189)

hehe.. man you're good!

You'll find that there are many people here that are much more skilled than me. I love this place!

Quote:

Originally Posted by chococharlie (Post 3277189)

here it is:
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13

LOL, I swore that just said Red Hat not 2 minutes ago :). Next time you edit the post, please place an "edit" tag of some sort so it doesn't confuse people ;)

Quote:

Originally Posted by CRC123 (Post 3277202)

You'll find that there are many people here that are much more skilled than me. I love this place!

LOL, I swore that just said Red Hat not 2 minutes ago :). Next time you edit the post, please place an "edit" tag of some sort so it doesn't confuse people ;)

You are correct hehe I was connected to two machines and made a mistake, I was hoping that the edit was quick enough for you not to notice, but I failed. :p Thanks again, you are right this place rocks!

By the way, I am planning to install Linux on my windows box with VMware, what distro do you recommend?

If your not confident with Linux yet, I'd recommend a distro that has good support/documentation. Ubuntu, opensuse, and fedora come to mind when take those things into consideration (they are also normally the top 3 on distrowatch.com). I obviously prefer suse because it has great documentation, YAST(some hate, some love, I love it), good hardware support, and lots of extra repositories to download programs from. The latest one even has an opensource version of vmware tools that will be automatically installed if you run it in a vmware virtual machine.

Thanks again sir, I will install Ubuntu for now.

Be ready for MANY MANY questions hehe :)

Yes I installed lshw manually as you say, it is not in Debian by default either.. aptitude install lshw
lshw is an excellent command line utility for gathering hardware information.

Heres a preview of how it displays some information.

Code:

it-etch:~# lshw -C disk

  *-disk                  

      description: ATA Disk

      product: Hitachi HDS72161

      vendor: Hitachi

      physical id: 0.0.0

      bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0

      logical name: /dev/sda

      version: P22O

      serial: PVB12345T2WGWH

      size: 149GiB (160GB)

      capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos

      configuration: ansiversion=5 signature=0e1234f4

  *-disk

      description: SCSI Disk

      physical id: 0.0.0

      bus info: scsi@4:0.0.0

      logical name: /dev/sdb

      size: 1009MiB (1058MB)

      capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos

      configuration: signature=0123bda7

  *-cdrom

      description: DVD writer

      product: PHILIPS DVD+/-RW DVD8801

      vendor: Philips

      physical id: 0

      bus info: ide@0.0

      logical name: /dev/hda

      logical name: /media/cdrom0

      version: 4D28

      capabilities: packet atapi cdrom removable nonmagnetic dma lba iordy audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r

      configuration: mode=udma2 mount.fstype=iso9660 mount.options=ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec state=mounted status=ready

    *-medium

          physical id: 0

          logical name: /dev/hda

          logical name: /media/cdrom0

          configuration: mount.fstype=iso9660 mount.options=ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec state=mounted





it-etch:~# lshw -C storage

  *-storage              

      description: SATA controller

      product: SB600 Non-Raid-5 SATA

      vendor: ATI Technologies Inc

      physical id: 12

      bus info: pci@0000:00:12.0

      logical name: scsi0

      version: 00

      width: 32 bits

      clock: 66MHz

      capabilities: storage pm msi bus_master cap_list emulated

      configuration: driver=ahci latency=64 module=ahci

  *-usb

      description: Mass storage device

      product: Flash Disk

      vendor: CBM

      physical id: 7

      bus info: usb@6:7

      logical name: scsi4

      version: 1.00

      serial: 01171234AFEF1002

      capabilities: usb-2.00 scsi emulated scsi-host

      configuration: driver=usb-storage maxpower=100mA speed=480.0MB/s

  *-ide

      description: IDE interface

      product: SB600 IDE

      vendor: ATI Technologies Inc

      physical id: 14.1

      bus info: pci@0000:00:14.1

      version: 00

      width: 32 bits

      clock: 66MHz

      capabilities: ide msi bus_master cap_list

      configuration: driver=ATIIXP_IDE latency=64 module=atiixp

Very clean detailed listings of pretty much any hardware in your system.