Re: Determining Which Physical Drive Matches Which Logical Device
12:17pm vamythguy said:
On 1/1/07, Bruno Wolff III <bruno(a)wolff.to> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 23:50:56 -0800,
> Curtis Doty <Curtis(a)GreenKey.net> wrote:
> >
> > Is your original question simply how to identify /dev/sda and /dev/sdd?
>
> If so, /dev/drive/by-id will have a list of sym links named by serial
> number that point back to the /dev/sd? entries that you should be able to
> use to identify which physical drives you want to pull.
>
Thanks. Yes, that's what I want to know.
To be pedantic, it's /dev/disk/ and you probably want to inspect all by-*/
subdirs. Some controllers may not report a disk by-id, but you would
probably still see it in by-path/.
../C