find disk drive info

pyroman59 · 10-13-2006, 07:18 PM

I am running Red Hat Linux 7.1 and need to find disk drive partitioning info... also, I'd like to probe the drives to see what they are (model, manufacturer, etc) Kind of like in Solaris where you can run the "format" command.
Thanks

pljvaldez · 10-13-2006, 07:26 PM

You can get the partition information by running /sbin/fdisk -l (that's L, not 1). As for the disk drive information, I got the model number by doing dmesg |grep -i hda (or sda for the first scsi drive). Funny though it doesn't output the manufacturer, but I can google the model and come up with the manufacturer...

homey · 10-13-2006, 09:07 PM

The programs fdisk and sfdisk need to be run by root. If you want to see the partition info as a regular user, try the command:

Code:

cat /proc/partitions

In Redhat/Fedora, you can see a lot of useful hardware information from the command:

Code:

cat /etc/sysconfig/hwconf

Also, Redhat/Fedora earlier versions have a utility called:/sbin/ide_info .
That doesn't seem to exist in later versions and you may get somewhere with hdparm but, be careful with that command.

And finally, there are bucket loads of information to be had from the commands

Code:

dmidecode  ## http://www.nongnu.org/dmidecode/
scanpci
lspci
lsmod ## list installed modules
cat /proc/interrupts
dmesg

haertig · 10-13-2006, 09:46 PM

Try the lshw command.

homey · 10-14-2006, 07:19 AM

I don't seem to have that command on Fedora.

Code:

lshw
-bash: lshw: command not found

I did forget to mention another command wich gives the same output as cat /etc/sysconfig/hwconf ....

Code:

/sbin/kudzu -p