List Available Disks

[JuiceWVU202]

Does anyone know of a way to list all raw hard disks attached to a computer, for example /dev/hda and what not weather or not they have any partitions mounted?

Thanks,
Josh

[Icarus]

mount will show what is mounted where and you can use cfdisk to check a disk for partitions

[voidinit]

Does anyone know of a way to list all raw hard disks attached to a computer, for example /dev/hda and what not weather or not they have any partitions mounted?

Thanks,
Josh



Other info can be found in /proc/partitions & /proc/diskstats:

more /proc/partitions
more /proc/diskstats

You can cross reference that /proc/partitions with diskstats to see which are mounted, etc.

[je_fro]

I usually just do dmesg | grep hd

[JuiceWVU202]

Jefro, exactly what i'm looking for, it even shows scsi/sata devices. Thanks.

[bwkaz]

Also check out your /sys/block directory. It'll have more than just hard drives in there (it'll have any block device, so floppies, loopback devices, etc. are also included), but it will have all your disk drives. Each of the disk drive directories will have a subdirectory for each of its partitions.

(This requires a 2.6 kernel, though, with sysfs mounted.)