You might try df first. Which gives you a list of partitions, like C:\WINDOWS>cd\progra~1\networksimplicity\ssh [thewiz@host thewiz]$ df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda2 75822432 59432520 12538332 83% / /dev/hda1 101089 58624 37246 62% /boot none 240752 0 240752 0% /dev/shm /dev/hdb1 19726356 5952700 12771604 32% /mnt/big the drives on this system are hda and hdb, for example. More detailed information can be found with dmesg, which lists everything pretty much on a box. Even gives buffer details on some drives. Thus, Linux version 2.4.20-31.9 (bhcompile@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) (gcc version 3.2.2 2 0030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)) #1 Tue Apr 13 17:38:16 EDT 2004 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: ... hda: WDC WD800JB-00CRA1, ATA DISK drive hdb: WDC WD205BA, ATA DISK drive blk: queue c03c5920, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) blk: queue c03c5a64, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) hdc: SAMSUNG CD-ROM SC-152L, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: attached ide-disk driver. hda: host protected area => 1 hda: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=9729/255/63, UDMA(100) hdb: attached ide-disk driver. hdb: host protected area => 1 hdb: 40088160 sectors (20525 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=2495/255/63, UDMA(66) ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hdb: hdb1 ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide ... Just to give you a short example. fdisk can be dangerious to newbies, but it will tell you how a partition table looks, and what type of partition exists. Just a couple of ideas. Tom Klem *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 05/23/2004 at 3:55 PM bruce wrote: >ok.. a basic question that i can't find the right answer for... > >how can i find out what my hard drive on my system is called...??? > >is fdisk the right function to use.. what would the attributes be...??? > >thanks > >bruce >bedouglas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > >-- >redhat-list mailing list >unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe >https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
