Physical Disk Size
Dalibor Juric
djuric at livingston.de
Fri Dec 1 12:57:17 UTC 2006
You need root permissions for fdisk command
Dalibor Juric
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Andrew.Bridgeman at corusgroup.com schrieb:
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> The fdisk -l does not come back with anything, i just returns to the
> command prompt. The *fdisk -l* does not run at all and just says command
> not found. The dmesg does not give me the disk size in the output either.
> Any more ideas?
>
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> Andrew.Bridgeman at corusgroup.com wrote:
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>> Could someone tell me a command i can run on my Redhat machines to find
>>
> out
>
>> the physical disk size of the hard disk in the machine without having to
>> take the disk out and look at it , this is because i have some machines
>> that are 18/36/72/73 gig and need to know which ones they are. I have run
>>
> a
>
>> fdisk to show the partitions but i am unsure if all of the machines have
>> been configured to use all of the disk so there must be a command i can
>>
> run
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>> to just check this out?
>> Any help would be much appreciated.
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> Fdisk tells you the size of the disk, as well as the partitions.
>
> # fdisk -l
>
> Disk /dev/sda: 72.9 GB, 72999763968 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 8875 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/sda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
> /dev/sda2 14 1288 10241437+ 82 Linux swap
> /dev/sda3 1289 8875 60942577+ 8e Linux LVM
>
>
> On the first line of output it says the disk is 72.9GB.
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