Thanks to all who took an interest in this minor subject. Things look
clear now.
Bill Fink is right: "pdisk -l" in Linux gives the list of all partitions
on mounted disks; but it does not work in OSX. It seems that "-l" is not
a valid option here, so that pdisk returns its help panel, the same
panel that shows if asked for by "pdisk -h".
In MacOSX, one gets this list by "diskutil list", but the names are
mac-style: /dev/disk0, dev/disk1... and cannot be used as references in
Linux.
"df" works in both cases and lists the mounted partitions.
I must admit that I have been disappointed in my hope to find a rational
method to get the name of an unmounted disk, and I now don't see any way
to do it but by guessing.
Charles
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