disks available

On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 16:50:23 +0200
Ivan Glushkov wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> a simple question: Is there a way under linux, as a user (i.e.
> without superuser privileges) to find out how many hard drives are
> physically connected on the computer? I am not interested in the info
> given by /etc/fstab or by the df command, since both of them are
> showing mounted disks, which is not what I want...
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Ivan
>
>

lshw (and lshw-gtk) is a good tool to find out things about hardware.
It doesn't need root privileges.

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On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 04:50:23PM +0200, Ivan Glushkov wrote:
> a simple question: Is there a way under linux, as a user (i.e. without
> superuser privileges) to find out how many hard drives are physically
> connected on the computer? I am not interested in the info given by
> /etc/fstab or by the df command, since both of them are showing mounted
> disks, which is not what I want...

$ dmesg | less

will show you everything that the kernel reports

As will, e.g., /proc/ide/ide0/hda/model

Doug.

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