/proc/partitions (was: Get a list of hard disks)

[Tong <mlist4suntong@yahoo.com>]

On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 13:25:42 -0700, Stefan O'Rear wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 04:13:23PM -0400, Tong wrote:
>> Hi, 
>> 
>> How can I get a list of hard disks available in my system? 
> 
> Try these:
> 
>    stefan:~$ ls /proc/ide -l --color=none
>    total 0
>    -r--r--r--    1 root     root            0 Aug 13 13:23 drivers
>    lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            0 Aug 13 13:23 hda -> ide0/hda
>    lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            0 Aug 13 13:23 hdb -> ide0/hdb
>    lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            0 Aug 13 13:23 hdc -> ide1/hdc
>    dr-xr-xr-x    4 root     root            0 Aug 13 13:23 ide0
>    dr-xr-xr-x    3 root     root            0 Aug 13 13:23 ide1

Hmm, I can't make too much information out of my output, Mine is:

$ ls /proc/ide -l --color=none
total 0
-r--r--r--  1 root root 0 Aug 13 16:37 drivers
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 8 Aug 13 16:37 hda -> ide0/hda
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 8 Aug 13 16:37 hdb -> ide0/hdb
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 8 Aug 13 16:37 hdc -> ide1/hdc
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 8 Aug 13 16:37 hdd -> ide1/hdd
dr-xr-xr-x  4 root root 0 Aug 13 16:37 ide0
dr-xr-xr-x  4 root root 0 Aug 13 16:37 ide1
-r--r--r--  1 root root 0 Aug 13 16:37 sis

My HDs are hda and hdb.

>    stefan:~$ cat /proc/partitions         
>    major minor  #blocks  name
>    
>       3     0   13260240 hda
>       3     1       8001 hda1
>       3     2       8032 hda2
>       3     3          1 hda3
>       3     5     377496 hda5
>       3     6      56196 hda6
>       3     7    9767488 hda7
>       3     8    3028221 hda8
>       3    64    4210920 hdb
>       3    65    1365493 hdb1
>       3    66    2843505 hdb2

Ah! Maybe that's the reason why my "sfdisk -s" produces no output (strace
told me "sfdisk -s" reads /proc/partitions)

Mine is:

% cat /proc/partitions 
major minor  #blocks  name     rio rmerge rsect ruse wio wmerge wsect wuse running use aveq

   3     0   60051600 ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc 72159 136746 1668720 467190 383039 658435 8342136 1659840 -429 17038808 22703194
   3     1    1638598 ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
   3     2    1028160 ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
   3     3    3092512 ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
   3     4          1 ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
   3     5     514048 ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5 1458 7877 74680 9070 2140 18285 166272 42490 0 10100 52000

How can I get the format like yours?