** Description changed:
Currently the guided methods of the Ubuntu installer only address single
disk setup. When a user have several disks on his machine he has to use
the manual partitioning which is prone to failure for inexperienced
- user.
+ users.
It would be useful to understand how many disks are installed on a
- system and their size.
+ system and their size to determine how update the installer to best suit
+ users' needs.
This information is available from /sys/block/<device>/size . The
information is in blocks. The block size is available from
/sys/block/<device>/queue/{logical|physical}_block_size
For example on my system
$ cat /sys/block/sda/{size,queue/*_block_size}
125045424
512
512
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.10
Package: ubuntu-report 1.2.0
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-23.25-generic 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-23-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Mon Jul 30 14:42:25 2018
Dependencies:
- gcc-8-base 8.2.0-1ubuntu2
- libc6 2.27-3ubuntu1
- libgcc1 1:8.2.0-1ubuntu2
+ gcc-8-base 8.2.0-1ubuntu2
+ libc6 2.27-3ubuntu1
+ libgcc1 1:8.2.0-1ubuntu2
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-07-15 (1476 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Alpha amd64 (20140520)
SourcePackage: ubuntu-report
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to cosmic on 2018-03-24 (127 days ago)
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