Re: Command to display the complete picture of hard drive

2004-05-16 Thread Matt Navarre
On Saturday 15 May 2004 00:26, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi folks, FreeBSD 5.2 What command will be used to display the complete history of the hard drvice (other than fdisk) listing all partitions, their allocated space, used space, available space, date of creation, etc. disklabel(8) and df(1)

Re: Command to display the complete picture of hard drive

2004-05-15 Thread aekelly
Stephen, Try using df - it may be what you need. #df And, #man df will give you a list of flags. Alex On Saturday 15 May 2004 03:26 am, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi folks, FreeBSD 5.2 What command will be used to display the complete history of the hard drvice (other than fdisk) listing all

Re: Command to display the complete picture of hard drive

2004-05-15 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Alex, Try using df - it may be what you need. #df And, #man df will give you a list of flags. Tks for your advice. 'df' is the command I'm searching for. $ df -ahi FilesystemSize Used Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on /dev/ad4s1a 248M43M 185M19%

Re: Command to display the complete picture of hard drive

2004-05-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, May 15, 2004 at 03:26:28PM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: FreeBSD 5.2 What command will be used to display the complete history of the hard drvice (other than fdisk) listing all partitions, their allocated space, used space, available space, date of creation, etc. I don't think that

Re: Command to display the complete picture of hard drive

2004-05-15 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi, Tks for your advice. - snip - Why the denotation of hard drive = /dev/ad4sla, not /dev/hda, etc. Because afaik, /dev/hda is a Linuxism. The /dev/ad2s1a convention has been there long before Linux was even conceived of. I suppose '/dev/ad2sla' with the HD connected to the IDE

Re: Command to display the complete picture of hard drive

2004-05-15 Thread Chuck Swiger
Stephen Liu wrote: [ ... ] Why the denotation of hard drive = /dev/ad4sla, not /dev/hda, etc. FreeBSD isn't Linux. ad referrs to (A)TAPI (D)isk, the 4 refers to an IDE device which is after the standard primary secondary channels (which are ad0 - ad3), and s1a refers to the first FDISK