Disk names

[Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D.]

* Check out the man page for the "df" command
* If the disk is mounted there will be an entry in /etc/mtab file

-Joseph

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On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 17:40 +0200, Charles Trois wrote:
> I am not sure of the name of my Firewire drive.
> 
> In Mac OsX, the command
> 
> diskutil list
> 
> in the terminal produces an exhaustive list of disks (including CDROM, 
> Firewire, etc) and their partitions, but shows them under names such as 
> /dev/disk0, etc, not suitable for Linux, that requires /dev/hda, etc.
> 
> Is there in Linux a tool working in the same way, that would supply the 
> proper names?
> 
> Thanks for all hints.
> 
> Charles
> 
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