[Wolves] Linux question (yes really!)

[David Goodwin]

James Turner wrote:
> (finally catches up with e-mail)
> 
> On Friday 28 May 2004 11:57, Chris Procter wrote:
> 
>>>df -h will give you that info.
>>
>>No it dosn't. This is the tricky one, a raid array appears as a single
>>device and df reports the size of that device, not the underlying disk
>>sizes... (snipped)
> 
> 
> Try
> 
> /sbin/fdisk -l | more
> 
> (shows the disc sizes amongst numerous other things for every device 
> recognised by the kernel and listed in /proc/partitions).
> 
> James

If he's using a hardware raid controller (e.g. like those found in 
Compaq ProLiants) fdisk will just return information from the RAID 
device, and will not show you the underlying disks. This is to be 
expected, when you have a hardware layer abstracting the RAID stuff away 
from the O/S.

David