This command will list all installed hard disks in your system. This is using the -S parameter to only list SCSI devices. ð’…‘ 4.4 Mon Mar 23 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ lsblk -n -S sda 0:0:0:0 disk Seagate Expansion Desk 0911 usb sdb 1:0:0:0 disk ATA ST3500418AS CC38 sata sdc 3:0:0:0 disk ATA ST3360320AS N sata … Read more
This command will only list the mounted removable drives on your Linux system. The ones under /dev/sd*. This is very easy to use. 4.4 Mon Jan 13 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ cat /etc/mtab | grep /dev/s[a-f]/* /dev/sda2 /media/jason/Seagate\040Expansion\040Drive fuseblk rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,default_permissions,allow_other,blksize=4096 0 0 /dev/sdb4 /media/jason/My\040Stuff fuseblk rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,default_permissions,allow_other,blksize=4096 0 04.4 Mon Jan 13 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ cat /etc/mtab … Read more
This is my /etc/fstab file. # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # Use ‘blkid’ to print the universally unique identifier for a # device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices # that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5). # # <file system> … Read more
This 128 Gigabyte SSD drive is only AU$99.00. This is an awesome deal for the price that is asked; Since Debian can boot very fast anyway; having an SSD drive as your boot drive would make your computer boot up very fast indeed. Solid State Drives use microchips to store data instead of using platters … Read more
The Solid State Drives that are now available, with no moving parts compared to a traditional hard disk are the faster alternative to the traditional hard disk drives that are taking over as very fast boot drives. They do not have the capacity of a traditional hard disk, an SSD is available in a 128 … Read more
Listing hardware on a Linux system. This is easy when using the Linux command-line. In the olden days, you would use the cat /proc/pci command to list hardware installed on the PCI bus, but this /proc file is deprecated and does not exist on modern Linux systems. The lspci command is the modern way to … Read more
Computer tape drives were all the rage in the early days of computing, with computer tape drives able to store massive amounts of data these days. The early computers used tape to store computer programs and information on reel to reel tapes that were on giant reels that were threaded on and then read at … Read more
Dick Smith Electronics, a major Australian retailer have been accused of selling used and malware infected hard drives as new, endangering the computers owned by consumers. In one instance a preacher bought an external hard drive and when he plugged it in he was greeted by a pornographic video. You would think they would be … Read more