Messages about a failing hard drive meant that I wanted to list all the installed drives so that I could determine which needed to be replaced.
Browsing the Internet there are many recommendations to use the command lshw
However, I found that by default its not included within the Debian installation.
but can be installed using
apt install lshw
Without additional parameters the following list covering many different aspects of the computer. However, it’s possible to hone the list to interested parts, in our example the hard drives.
lshw -class disk
Which gave something like:
*-disk
description: ATA Disk
product: QEMU HARDDISK
physical id: 0
bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/sda
version: 2.5+
serial: QM00001
size: 94GiB (1000GB)
capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
configuration: ansiversion=5 logicalsectorsize=512 sectorsize=512 signature=8f3832f373
*-cdrom
description: DVD READER
product: QEMU DVD-ROM
physical id: 0
bus info: scsi@1:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/cdrom
logical name: /dev/sr0
version: 2.5+
serial: 1913E1F58737
size: 1863GiB (2TB)
capabilities: removable audio dvd
configuration: ansiversion=5 status=nodisc
Another option was the command lsblk
lsblk
Shown below is an example of running the command.
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 1.8T 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 923.6G 0 part /home/projects
├─sda2 8:2 0 890.5G 0 part /home/sites
└─sda5 8:5 0 7.9G 0 part [SWAP]
sr0 11:0 1 4.4G 0 rom
