Re: Disk tools in debian
I'm puzzled. I thought I might learn something by checking on this
fix to Tong's problem, but running as root on a Sarge system, I get
results just like Tong, and not like you, Oliver. I fail to see what
I could be doing wrong. Maybe there is a problem here.
On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 09:59:30PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-07-11 at 21:24, * Tong* wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > In other distros, if I want to have a look at what HDs I have and
> > their size, I just issue 'sfdisk -s', then all the HDs I have and
> > their size are shown. But in debian, nothing happens after issuing
> > 'sfdisk -s'. Hence, question #1,
> >
> > How can I know what HDs I have in my system (so that I can feed to
> > result to the rest of my script)?
>
> Run sfdisk as root. It probably doesn't have permission to read the
> disks.
>
> > Other things I can do with other distros but not debian are:
> >
> > - get all disk geometries
> >
> > $ sfdisk -g
> > /dev/hdd: 2494 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
> > /dev/hda: 7476 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
>
> Works as root
>
> > - get all partitions
> >
> > fdisk -l | grep '^/hd[a-d]'
> > /dev/hdd1 1 64 514048+ 82 Linux swap
> > /dev/hdd2 * 65 319 2048287+ 83 Linux
> > [...]
> > /dev/hda1 1 64 514048+ 82 Linux swap
> > /dev/hda2 65 321 2064352+ b Win95 FAT32
>
> Again, run it as root.
>
> > I'll stress that my questions are scripting-wise. I need to write
> > generic script that doesn't require me to throw in specific hd
> > info for it to run. I think the disk tools is sadly a week point
> > in Debian, or maybe I haven't find the right gadget. Please help.
>
> Possibly other distributions are more lax about giving read permission
> on the disk devices. If so, I find it highly surprising, since if an
> ordinary user can read the disk devices, he can read any data on them.
>
> (I tried your examples using the current version from unstable, and I
> tried sfdisk on woody.)
>
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