Physical Disk Size

Dalibor Juric djuric at livingston.de
Fri Dec 1 12:57:17 UTC 2006


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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?
>
> Regards
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> Andrew.Bridgeman at corusgroup.com wrote:
>   
>> 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
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> On the first line of output it says the disk is 72.9GB.
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