Re: Command to display the complete picture of hard drive
On Saturday 15 May 2004 00:26, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi folks, FreeBSD 5.2 What command will be used to display the complete history of the hard drvice (other than fdisk) listing all partitions, their allocated space, used space, available space, date of creation, etc. disklabel(8) and df(1) should give you most of what you need. They'll certainly tell you about partitions, used/free space, etc . As for time of creation, I don't know of anything that will tell you that. I'd be surprised if that was information that was available, it doesn't seem like the kind of thing a filesystem needs to know. TIA B.R. Stephen Liu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] it was a hard sell, since he's a database person, and as far as I've seen, once those database worms eat into your brain, it's hard to ever get anything practical done again. To a database person, every nail looks like a thumb. Or something like that. - jwz ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Command to display the complete picture of hard drive
Stephen, Try using df - it may be what you need. #df And, #man df will give you a list of flags. Alex On Saturday 15 May 2004 03:26 am, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi folks, FreeBSD 5.2 What command will be used to display the complete history of the hard drvice (other than fdisk) listing all partitions, their allocated space, used space, available space, date of creation, etc. TIA B.R. Stephen Liu ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Command to display the complete picture of hard drive
Hi Alex, Try using df - it may be what you need. #df And, #man df will give you a list of flags. Tks for your advice. 'df' is the command I'm searching for. $ df -ahi FilesystemSize Used Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on /dev/ad4s1a 248M43M 185M19%1791 312315% / devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% 0 0 100% /dev ... Why the denotation of hard drive = /dev/ad4sla, not /dev/hda, etc. B.R. Stephen On Saturday 15 May 2004 03:26 am, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi folks, FreeBSD 5.2 What command will be used to display the complete history of the hard drvice (other than fdisk) listing all partitions, their allocated space, used space, available space, date of creation, etc. TIA B.R. Stephen Liu = Best Regards Stephen Liu ___ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com.hk address at http://mail.english.yahoo.com.hk ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Command to display the complete picture of hard drive
On Sat, May 15, 2004 at 03:26:28PM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: FreeBSD 5.2 What command will be used to display the complete history of the hard drvice (other than fdisk) listing all partitions, their allocated space, used space, available space, date of creation, etc. I don't think that there is a single command that will get you all that. There are quite a few commands that will get you bits of that: fdisk(8), bsdlabel(8), fsinfo(8), df(1) although I don't think that all of the dates you want to see are stored anywhere. The Unix way of dealing with this sort of thing is to write a script wrapping together all of those tools and massaging the output into whatever form you want. Which does presuppose some reasonable facility with shell programming. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK pgp3a5co40nMK.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Command to display the complete picture of hard drive
Hi, Tks for your advice. - snip - Why the denotation of hard drive = /dev/ad4sla, not /dev/hda, etc. Because afaik, /dev/hda is a Linuxism. The /dev/ad2s1a convention has been there long before Linux was even conceived of. I suppose '/dev/ad2sla' with the HD connected to the IDE slot of motherboard. For '/dev/ad4sla' the HD is connected to a controller card as in my case. If I am wrong please correct me. TIA B.R. Stephen ___ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com.hk address at http://mail.english.yahoo.com.hk ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Command to display the complete picture of hard drive
Stephen Liu wrote: [ ... ] Why the denotation of hard drive = /dev/ad4sla, not /dev/hda, etc. FreeBSD isn't Linux. ad referrs to (A)TAPI (D)isk, the 4 refers to an IDE device which is after the standard primary secondary channels (which are ad0 - ad3), and s1a refers to the first FDISK partition, slice a. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
