[CentOS] Identifying physical disks

Tue May 3 19:17:06 UTC 2011
Jussi Hirvi <listmember at greenspot.fi>

On 3.5.2011 22.05, Andy Holt wrote:
> ls -l /dev/disk/by-id
>
> which on my system gives me:
>
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  9 Mar  6 14:34 scsi-SATA_SAMSUNG_HD154UIS1XWJ1BZ900317 ->  ../../sdc
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  9 Mar  6 14:34 scsi-SATA_SAMSUNG_HD154UIS1XWJ1BZ900318 ->  ../../sdb
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  9 Mar  6 14:34 scsi-SATA_SAMSUNG_HD154UIS1XWJ9CZA00454 ->  ../../sdd
>
> which are my three identical Samsung HD154UI disks.  Their serial numbers are the S1XWJ... bits at the end.

Hei,

That is cool! Thanks.

- Jussi