To Determine System Configuration - (No of CPUs, their speed, RAM, No of Hard disks, their capacity)

Krishnaprasad k.krishna at hcl.in
Mon Mar 27 12:32:01 UTC 2006


sfdisk -s will give the size of every harddisks connected to the system. 
df -H will show size of mounted partitions only.


Krishnaprasad wrote:

>
>
> try
>      df -H command
>
> unix syzadmin wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> One a linux server (RHEL AS 2), fdisk -l command does not tell the 
>> size of
>> hard disk.  Is there a way out.  Please help.
>>
>> [root at bangpcrh212 root]# more /etc/redhat-release
>> Red Hat Linux Advanced Server release 2.1AS (Pensacola) Update 5
>> [root at bangpcrh212 root]# fdisk -l
>>
>> Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 8924 cylinders
>> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>>
>>   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
>> /dev/sda1   *         1       127   1020096   83  Linux
>> /dev/sda2           128       637   4096575   83  Linux
>> /dev/sda3           638      1019   3068415   83  Linux
>> /dev/sda4          1020      8924  63496912+   f  Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
>> /dev/sda5          1020      1401   3068383+  83  Linux
>> /dev/sda6          1402      1656   2048256   82  Linux swap
>> /dev/sda7          1657      8924  58380178+  83  Linux
>>
>> Disk /dev/sdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 8924 cylinders
>> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>>
>>   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
>> /dev/sdb1   *         1      3824  30716248+  83  Linux
>> /dev/sdb2          3825      8924  40965750   83  Linux
>>
>> Regards,
>> -GnanaShekar-
>>
>> On 3/16/06, Dag Wieers <dag at wieers.com> wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> On Thu, 16 Mar 2006, Ed Wilts wrote:
>>>
>>>   
>>>
>>>> On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 08:18:47PM +0530, unix syzadmin wrote:
>>>>     
>>>>
>>>>> We have a lot of RedHat Linux servers in our lab.  I have been
>>>>>       
>>>>
>>> assigned a
>>>   
>>>
>>>>> task to determine hardware configuration of these servers.  Please
>>>>>       
>>>>
>>> suggest
>>>   
>>>
>>>>> some commands that would give the following information:
>>>>> 1. Type and No of CPU's, also their speed,
>>>>> 2. Amount of RAM.
>>>>> 3. No of Hard disk and their size.
>>>>>       
>>>>
>>>> I would start with lshw from either Dag's archive or from the author's
>>>> site at http://www.ezix.org/software/lshw.html.  You can generate the
>>>> output in text, xml, or html.  For an html sample, I threw up the 
>>>> output
>>>> from my desktop at http://www.ewilts.org/lshw.html
>>>>
>>>> You may also want to look at the alist project at
>>>> http://www.brains2bytes.com/alist/.  It's getting a little old but 
>>>> it's
>>>> open source and cross-platform so you could update it if required.  It
>>>> will give you not only the hardware configuration but also some basic
>>>> software configurations including patch lists.  It's designed to be 
>>>> more
>>>> of a client-server application that allows it to keep itself up to 
>>>> date..
>>>>     
>>>
>>> And dconf is something you might want to look at if the purpose is to
>>> track changes (within a team) over time or to compare system 
>>> (software and
>>> hardware) configurations.
>>>
>>>       http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/dconf/
>>>
>>> Of course, you still need to know what command-output provides you with
>>> this information. Those would be: dmidecode and fdisk -l
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>> --   dag wieers,  dag at wieers.com,  http://dag.wieers.com/   --
>>> [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]
>>>
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