List all hard drives on system (with capacities)... How?

2012-12-06 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
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 drives, but it does not

Re: List all hard drives on system (with capacities)... How?

2012-12-06 Thread Tim Daneliuk
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

Re: List all hard drives on system (with capacities)... How?

2012-12-06 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
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

Re: List all hard drives on system (with capacities)... How?

2012-12-06 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 12/7/2012 1:34 AM, Tim Daneliuk 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.

Re: List all hard drives on system (with capacities)... How?

2012-12-06 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 04:23:54PM -0800, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: if ($bytes = (1024 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024)) { You know about the exponentiation operator in Perl -- right? if ($bytes = (1024 ** 4)) { I don't think typing 1024 four times with * between each pair is really a helpful