Re: how to check the physical capacity of each hard drive

Steve wrote:
Tommy Reynolds wrote:
On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 17:21:19 -0400, Steve wrote:


Check our /proc/scsi and poke around. The scsi file in that directory lists the drives (speeds are sometimes in there).


Hey, thanks for the reminder! Look at "/proc/partitions" for full
information!

HTH

Glad to return the favour for once! :) Coming from a Windows world (well, 6 years ago...) I love /proc. :)

S.

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