On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 05:17:08PM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > On 8/11/19 3:10 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 02:55:00PM +0200, Antony Stone wrote: > > > On Sunday 11 August 2019 at 14:37:09, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > > > > > I do not know which of the hard drives on my machine is /dev/sdb/ > > > ... > > > > > > > Or is there some completely different way of accomplishing what I want? > > > # hdparm -i /dev/sdb > > > > > > It'll tell you the drive type and the serial number, which should also be > > > printed on the drive label. > > Yes, that will help! Thank you. > > > You could also execute a command that causes heavy load on /dev/sdb - be it > a test, or a search - and then see which drive's lights flash a lot (if the > drive has a light).
Good idea, but no light. -- hendrik _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
