Disk names

[Bill Fink]

On Fri May 27 2005, 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,

The command you want is "pdisk -l" (must be run as root).

					-Bill