On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 08:51:51AM +0200, Tomasz Torcz wrote: > On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 03:10:23PM -0400, 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. > > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng > > Or take a look at `ls -l /dev/disk/by-id/`, you will get maker, S/N > and sdX device.
Indeed, Also dm devices from LVM, the md RAID paritions and the ordinary hard drive partitions What surprises me is the creation dates. I thought all these /dev devices would be created at boot time, but the creation dates not all the same. I see July 24 for LVM's dm partitions, and August 10 for the physical partitions and the RAID devices. Auguset 10 might be when I did the security upgrade; July 24 might have been when I last booted (because of a power failure). Didn't there use to be something like by-path? That might distinguish the devices connected directly from the motherboard from the ones connected via an expaneion card. (I made sure that the partitions cotributing to a RAID device were on different adaptors -- one from the motherboard paired with oe from the expansion card) -- hendrik > > -- > Tomasz Torcz Only gods can safely risk perfection, > xmpp: [email protected] it's a dangerous thing for a man. -- Alia > > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
