Disk names

[Derick Centeno]

Hi Charles:
If you looked at the df command as recommended you would see that the 
command displays information about the amount of disk free space a 
particular system has AND where it is located.  There is also provided 
an option -h, to provide details in "human" , as opposed to techie 
readable form.

To simulate your situation I decided to stick a few items to my 
powerbook which it normally doesn't have attached to it just to show 
off this command and it's flexibility.  I evoked the command from 
within Terminal.  Below is what occured:

Last login: Fri May 27 14:11:38 on console
Welcome to Darwin!
Arakus:~ aguila$ df -h
Filesystem                         Size   Used  Avail Capacity  Mounted 
on
/dev/disk1s3                      70G      14G    56G       20%   /
devfs                                   98K       98K      0B     100%  
  /dev
fdesc                                  1.0K      1.0K      0B     100%  
  /dev
<volfs>                             512K     512K      0B     100%   
/.vol
/dev/disk2s5                    6.0G       64M   5.9G         1%   
/Volumes/Dharma VI
/dev/disk3s1s2              628M     628M      0B    100%   
/Volumes/YellowDog_Install
/dev/disk0s1                  120M        36K  120M        0%   
/Volumes/SDDEVICE
automount -nsl [398]         0B          0B       0B    100%   /Network
automount -fstab [411]      0B          0B       0B    100%   
/automount/Servers
automount -static [411]     0B          0B       0B    100%   
/automount/static

Hopefully you know the name of your devices.  On my system Dharma VI is 
the firewire drive, the YDL install disk is a CD, and the SDDEVICE is 
actually an 128MB SD card which my PDA uses (I have it installed into a 
SanDisk reader which is attached to the powerbook; no special software 
is necessary).

Things to consider make sure your Firewire drive connections are firm 
and that the drive is on.  Sometimes the simplest things overlooked 
cause the most confusing results.  Note that the Firewire drive appears 
as /dev/disk2.

Best wishes...

On May 27, 2005, at 11:49 AM, Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. wrote:

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