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How to find out what disk drives are installed in a Ubuntu server
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I have remote access (including root access) to a Ubuntu 9 server, but can't inspect it physically or reboot it. I want to find out the manufacturer and model of the hard disks installed in the server and how they are connected (SATA / IDE, which version). Is there a command line way of doing this?…
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If you do an as root it should list the drives and partitions like below: /dev/sda is the drive and each number is a partition. So if you see hda or sda or sdb... this is what you use in the smartctl command. you can get smartctl with Since mine is …
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