Physical Disk Size
Kevin K
k_krieser at sbcglobal.net
Fri Dec 1 23:30:39 UTC 2006
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.
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