topic Re: Disk Identify in Operating System - Linux

Disk Identify

Juan de Los Palotes — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 22:34:56 GMT

Hi Guys

How can I identify which are internal disk and san disk on redhat linux?

Thanks a Lot for your help
CF

Re: Disk Identify

Jeeshan — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 03:38:09 GMT

either you can check with command "fdsik -l" or "cat /proc/partitions"

if the disk is directly connected, then the device name in /proc/partitions file has an entry like

it will be more clear if you give your scenario.

Re: Disk Identify

Court Campbell — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:33:40 GMT

I would go with

# cat /proc/scsi/scsi

You could probably figure it out from the output.

Re: Disk Identify

David Claypool — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:45:13 GMT

If it's a ProLiant and the ProLiant Support Pack is loaded, you can tell the disk to flash to identify itself from the System Management Homepage.