Jim Ricken wrote:
Is there a command that you can use to find out how your hard drives are labeled hda ,sda,etc?
One of my favorite drive-inventory tricks that I haven't head yet is the following:
ls /proc/ide/*/model cat /proc/ide/*/model cat /proc/scsi/scsi cat /proc/partitionsBut, it doesn't tell you the device names right off, you have to put the items together in your head -- but that's how I do it. Running mount and df show you what the machine is already using -- if you put that together with the information form /proc, you can figure out what the new hard drive is called.
Another option for inventorying ATA devices quickly would be: grep $ /proc/ide/*/modelIf you want a smoking gun, you can ls -l /dev/hda and then match the major number to the number in in "cat /proc/devices". Also, running /sbin/lspci, /sbin/lsusb, and /sbin/lsmod can also tell you a lot about PCI cards, USB devices, and loaded kernel-modules ("device drivers and more").
Anyway, Linux gives you a lot of information about the system -- but I haven't yet found a convenient command-line tool that gives you a good picture of what the system looks like. Solaris has prtconf, which does provide a full picture (but I usually cause it to produce too little or too much output), and Apple has "System Profiler", but that's a GUI tool that only runs on Mac OS X -- so I just put together my own mental image by probing around manually. :-)
That's probably more than you wanted to know -- but if you like to figure out the machine, these are good tols for the job.
-Luke
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