[clug] command of the hour

Kim Holburn kim at holburn.net
Wed Feb 4 12:42:05 GMT 2009


I just put in a new hard disk, as you do, and was googling around to  
find out how to work out what device it had ended up as, as you do,  
and after trying cat /proc/partitions which worked well, discovered:  
lshw.  As in "lshw -C disk".  Awesome.  Tells you lots of other useful  
things too.

Kim
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