David M. Strang wrote: > What options do I have to retreive the serial number without driving out > to the datacenter and looking at the drive? Do I need to be afraid of > upgrading my kernel and mdadm and having my superblock go poof?
pretty sure "smartctl -d ata -a /dev/sdwhatever" will tell you the serial number. (Hopefully the kernel is new enough that it supports SATA/smart, otherwise you need a kernel patch which won't be any better...) cheers, /Patrik
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