[CentOS] Linux equivalent of 'format' in solaris

Fri Jul 11 17:04:48 UTC 2008
Ed Donahue <liberaled at gmail.com>

It shows the physical disks on the server

bash-2.05b# format
 Searching for disks...done


 AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
        0. c0t2d0 <SUN18G cyl 7506 alt 2 hd 19 sec 248>
           /sbus at 3,0/SUNW,fas at 3,8800000/sd at 2,0
        1. c0t3d0 <SUN18G cyl 7506 alt 2 hd 19 sec 248>
           /sbus at 3,0/SUNW,fas at 3,8800000/sd at 3,0
        2. c0t4d0 <SUN18G cyl 7506 alt 2 hd 19 sec 248>
           /sbus at 3,0/SUNW,fas at 3,8800000/sd at 4,0
        3. c1t10d0 <SUN18G cyl 7506 alt 2 hd 19 sec 248>
           /sbus at 3,0/QLGC,isp at 0,10000/sd at a,0
        4. c1t11d0 <SUN18G cyl 7506 alt 2 hd 19 sec 248>
           /sbus at 3,0/QLGC,isp at 0,10000/sd at b,0
        5. c1t12d0 <SUN18G cyl 7506 alt 2 hd 19 sec 248>
           /sbus at 3,0/QLGC,isp at 0,10000/sd at c,0
 Specify disk (enter its number):
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