On 12/20/12 22:17, Indunil Jayasooriya wrote: > HI, > > I would like to know How to list available all hard disks in OpenBSD ? > > If I run below 2 commands, it will give an output. > > dmesg |grep wd0 > > fdisk wd0
If you want USEFUL, you might use: dmesg |grep "^[sw]d" if you care about floppies and/or cdrom drives, add a "cf" in there, too. actually, if you want to script it, you will want to lock it down a lot further...but that gives a nice view for humans to read. > > If I install a new Hard Disk, How to get to know whether it is wd1 or > anything eles? well, the numbers aren't picked randomly -- see start of http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html If you know your computer (and read that article a few times with no preconceptions), you can predict what the next hard disk name will be. > In Linux, Fdisk -l show all the available hard disks. In OpenBSD what's the > command for it? One of linux's many non-charming displays. Try this: $ sysctl hw.diskcount hw.diskcount=9 $ sysctl hw.disknames hw.disknames=sd0:4b8432d7819c0c85,cd0:,sd1:954c43c63da1e128,sd2:d9f3f58824ed9e20,sd3:4b8432d7819c0c85,sd4:ef8be159ad6b717f,sd5:eb3971fada5612b9,sd6:e4fc87e6abfa5e45,sd7:e92e54806f9e4124 In case you are wondering...that's a six physical disks and a couple softraid disks on a sun e250. (do a "sysctl hw" on your machine...in many cases, you will be amazed) Or use duids, and don't worry 'bout names. Keep reading in the above link. :) Nick.
