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Re: Open BSD Physical Storage

by Alexander Hall :: Rate this Message:

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Shachi Rai wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Great to see  your reply,
>
> I would like to explain you in detail,
>
> I am currently writing a java code which tries to find out the total
> physical storage of an OpenBSD machine. Infact I would like to know the
> complete partition table in an OPenBSD machine.
>
> I have gone through the disklabel and fdisk command but both these command
> take the device name as a parameter. So my first question would be to know
> all the devices which are attached and may or may not be mounted. Once this
> is obtained, I would run the above commands to get the information about
> each device.

Try `sysctl -n hw.disknames'

then run disklabel on each of them

That might give you what you want.

/Alexander

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