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Alan Cox wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 04:24:01PM -0400, Gerry Reno wrote:
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<pre wrap="">The serial number might be ok until you replace the disk. Just have to
remember to rerun the tools for the replacement and to note the
replacement lineage. In scripts I think I could parse smartctl output
for serial numbers or is there something better under /proc I can parse?
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hdparm is probably better to parse than hdparm. Especially
hdparm --Istdout
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<tt>Ok, I was trying to steer clear of hdparm if I could because I got
bit a couple times with that command. But in this instance in a script
it should be ok.<br>
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