In message <50c12b6c.5020...@tundraware.com>, Tim Daneliuk <tun...@tundraware.com> wrote:
>On 12/06/2012 05:30 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: >> >> I'd like to write a small program or shell script that simply lists all >> of the physical hard drives attached to the local system, along with their >> product identifiers and their respective capacities. >> >> The following simple script works well for both PATA/SATA and USB hard drive >s, >> but it does not list drive capacities: >> >> #!/bin/sh >> >> atacontrol list | grep ': ad[0-9]' | sed 's/^.*: //' >> camcontrol devlist | grep '(da[0-9]' | sed -E 's/^(.*) \((da[0-9]+).*$/\2 \1 >/' >> >> >> How can I modify the script above in order to get it to print out the >> respective drive capacities? > >Look into fdisk -s Thank you Tim. Silly me! Before I even got your reply, I had already doen a bit more research and I had found what I think may perhaps be an even better answer. I never knew about this utility program called "diskinfo", but I just now found it, and it seems to do the trick. There appears to be a small problem with using fdisk -s... It looks like it hiccups when and if the drive in question has not actually been partitioned yet: # fdisk -s /dev/ad6 fdisk: invalid fdisk partition table found (The diskinfo utility apparently does not suffer from this problem.) _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"