How to check all the available hard disks (including not in use) in redhat linux

[gab_in]

Hi,

I have a DL380 machines running RHEL3. There are 4x300GB and 2x36GB Hard disks are installed in the machine. But only one hard disk is in use. Please let me know how can I check whether the other hard disks are detected by OS and how to use those.

Thanks in advance

[gab_in]

Please find the current df output from the machine

df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/cciss/c0d0p2 100791568 9357348 86314228 10% /
/dev/cciss/c0d0p1 2015904 43724 1869776 3% /boot
/dev/cciss/c0d0p3 40315400 17696656 20570788 47% /opt
none 3048664 0 3048664 0% /dev/shm
/dev/cciss/c0d0p6 19794164 3312124 15476528 18% /var

[Jeeshan]

either use dmesg or you can apply command

#fdisk -l

it will show your available hard disks, both partitioned and non parttitioned.

[Ivan Ferreira]

Consider that these devices can be used as RAW devices, and also, that may be in a hardware RAID configuration.

[skt_skt]

check /proc/partitions too

[Nuwan Alwis]

Yep, as ahsan says easy way would be using fdisk -l command. but if u need a graphical representation Hardware browser tool will help you.

[Jeeshan]

/proc/partitions will shows only the partitions available. but fdisk -l will show you the total space of a HDD along with partitions.

i think you got your answer.

So, assign points to cheer!!!!!!!!

[Deepak Kulkarni]

Hi,

cat /proc/partitions


Regards
DK