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Martijn wrote: > Hello. > > I am trying to find the specifications of a number of (old-ish) > computers: their CPU speed, the size of their RAM and the size of > their hard disk. I boot them using a Knoppix cd, text only mode and > then I can easily find the former two (they are in /proc/cpuinfo and > /proc/meminfo respectively), but is there an equally simple way to > determine the size of the hard disk(s)? I know there are other ways to > find the hard disk size --looking into the bios, opening the computer > and reading what it says on the disk-- but it would save me so much > time if I could find it using a simple command. > > I thought df -hT would do the job, but for some reason it always shows > a 2GB /KNOPPIX partition on /dev/cloop and some smaller partitions. > > Thanks. > > Martijn. > Try... fdisk /dev/sdX or fdisk /dev/hdX where X is the letter associated with the hard disk (usually a i.e. sda or hda if it's only got one hard disk). It should at least be able to give you a rough idea of how big the hard drives are and what partitions are on the drive. Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html