topic Re: How to get disksize? in Operating System - Tru64 Unix

How to get disksize?

Isaac_4 — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 17:57:39 GMT

Hi to all:

I want to know who can see the size disks there are installed in my Tru64 box.

Thank you !!!

Re: How to get disksize?

Ravi_8 — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 00:32:20 GMT

Hi,

"sysconfig" can give you the entire system information. another way is by using "diskconfig",Looking into each disk will show you the disk size

Re: How to get disksize?

Venkatesh BL — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 01:47:52 GMT

On my system, I see that disklabel, diskconfig and sysconfig are executable by user "bin" and group "bin". So, I guess anyone belonging to this group would be able to see the disk size.

Re: How to get disksize?

Joakim Brosten — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 03:33:13 GMT

You can find out which diskdevices that are configurated in the system by "hwmgr -show scsi"
Then, by using "disklabel -r dsk(the-disk-device-number-from-above-command) will show you the size of the disks as well as the partitions. (i.e. "disklabel -r dsk5")

/JB

Re: How to get disksize?

Ralf Puchner — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 03:58:56 GMT

disklabel -r/df is the right command if you will get only the size. A "partition" can also consist of virtuell parititions so physical device information is irrelevant in this case.

If you need the hardware (disktype etc.)information etc. use the other commands given in previous postings. Btw. if a san or disk array is used the information must be got on the storage controller itself.

Re: How to get disksize?

Johan Brusche — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 05:34:14 GMT

If the disk is already partioned with disklabel, then try:

disklabel dsk99 | grep " c:" | awk 'print $2/2048}'

It gives you the size in megabytes.

If the disk is not yet partitioned, then use:

hwmgr get attrib -id 123 | grep capacity | awk '{print $3/2048}'

__ Johan ;-)

Re: How to get disksize?

Han Pilmeyer — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 06:20:39 GMT

Note that using disklabel may return stale information. Modern disk sub systems allow the size of a LUN to be changed dynamically. This change is not reflected in the disklabel.

Therefore I suggest to use the 2nd command suggested by Johan.

If you are really desparate to get the latest information from the storage device, then you can use the "show capacity" command in "scu". This will query the device.