Hi,

How to check the remaining capacity, partition information, system type, etc.

Thanks

Stephen

At 06:45 PM 8/16/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>on Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 09:55 AM -0700, Robert Vaughn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > How do I identify hard drive type, brand, model, IDE, SCSI?  I've
> > looked at fdisk and sfdisk and they provide partition information but
> > apparently not the HW type.  And what about getting drive capacity in
> > MB rather than blocks?
>
>The surefire method is to pull the drive &/or card and look at them.
>
>Otherwise, dmesg, /proc/pci, /proc/scsi, lspci, and related.
>
>For capacity in MiB:
>
>    ( cylinders * 16065 * 512 ) / 1048576
>
>(for a typical disk)
>
>Cheers.
>
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