I also wanted to suggest this, but… benutzer@horst:~$ cat /proc/cmdline root=/dev/xvda1 ro At most, you can find the root device there. But not the device from which you booted. Since I didn't know a good answer, I didn't write anything. But it would be interesting to find the answer! Best regards, Alexander <div class="gmail_quote">2010/10/25 Malahal Naineni <<a href="mailto:malahal@us.ibm.com">malahal@us.ibm.com</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div></div><div class="h5">Jon Price [<a href="mailto:jonelwoodprice@gmail.com">jonelwoodprice@gmail.com</a>] wrote: > Hi, > For starters, how can I determine the physical device name of > current/active boot disk in Linux? > Tx, > Jon </div></div>cat /proc/cmdline and go from there! _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list <a href="mailto:linux-lvm@redhat.com">linux-lvm@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm</a> read the LVM HOW-TO at <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/" target="_blank">http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/</a> </blockquote></div> -- Alexander -- ↯ Lifestream (Twitter, Blog, …) ↣ <a href="http://alexs77.soup.io/" target="_blank">http://alexs77.soup.io/</a> ↯ ↯ Chat (Jabber/Google Talk) ↣ <a href="mailto:a.skwar@gmail.com" target="_blank">a.skwar@gmail.com</a> , AIM: alexws77 ↯