[techtalk] Re: techtalk-digest V1 #90

Kathy Hargreaves kathryn at cs.umb.edu
Thu Dec 30 12:37:52 EST 1999


> > Also, I seem to remember there's a way to find out how large a disk I
> > have without having to open my box and look at it.  Anyone?


    echo p | fdisk /dev/hdb 
    
    is a little messy, 
    
I get an infinite loop.  ;-)


      grep hdb /var/log/messages|more

    is better.  It tells you what the disk told the OS when it booted.

Bingo.  Thanks, Jeff!


Kathy

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