Physical Disk Size

[Kevin K]

On Dec 1, 2006, at 1:52 PM, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:

> Quoting Kevin K <k_krieser at sbcglobal.net>:
>
>> Which option for df will give you the physical size of the hard  
>> drive?
>> man df and df --help didn't give me any insight.
>
> As already said in this thread.  Use utilities such as fdisk.  Or  
> check what kernel reported during boot (in /var/log/messages).  Or  
> see the content of /proc/ide/hd*/capacity (for IDE drives).
>
> "df" shows information about file systems.  Not partitions.  Not  
> disks.  It doesn't know anything about the hardware on which file  
> system resides (which in general doesn't need to be disk based, and  
> can be virtual or abstracted by several levels of whatever).


It had been stated by 2 different people that df would return this  
information, the second one after it had been shown wrong.   I was  
hoping that the people making this claim would make an attempt to  
explain that they had misread the original question.