3 Nov
2009
3 Nov
'09
12:02 a.m.
John R Pierce wrote:
Les Mikesell wrote:
If you can see activity lights, you can 'cat /dev/sd? >/dev/null' to make them busy, one at a time (where ? is a, b, c, etc).
hahaha, I've done that, only my version is...
# dd if=/dev/sdX of=/dev/null bs=512but, same difference
It's unfortunately about the best we've got when device names are assigned more or less randomly. NICs are even worse - we need a command to make the lights blink there too.
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