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--- showmydisks [2015-10-27 22:32]
andreas [Limitations] Does not support disks with GUID Partition Table (GTP)
+++ showmydisks [2020-10-12 21:12] (current)
andreas Archived discussion, disabled commenting
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 Please accept my sincere apology for the horrible coding style of this script. I am not a programmer, and when I started to write this script some 15 years ago my style was indeed worse than today.
-~~DISCUSSION~~
+===== Discussion =====
+<markdown>
+*Andreas Schamanek, 2009-09-15 13:20*
+See also my blog posting [Listing disks, partitions, and more].
+----
+*Andreas Schamanek, 2009-09-23 09:47, 2009-09-23 09:48*
+If on a system [GNU parted] is available one might want to use `parted -l` to list disks, partitions, sizes and file systems. It features nicely formatted output (see below) and detects NTFS file systems. It does not show mount points and free disk spaces, though.
+```
+debian:~# parted -l
+Model: SAMSUNG HM120JC (ide)
+Disk /dev/hda: 120GB
+Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
+Partition Table: msdos
+Number  Start   End     Size    Type      File system  Flags
+      32.3kB  41.1MB  41.1MB  primary   ext3         boot
+      41.1MB  543MB   502MB   primary   ext3
+      543MB   120GB   119GB   extended
+      543MB   1546MB  1003MB  logical   ext3
+      1546MB  1744MB  197MB   logical   linux-swap
+      1744MB  2040MB  296MB   logical   ext3
+      2040MB  3537MB  1497MB  logical   ext3
+      3537MB  120GB   116GB   logical   ext3
+Model: WDC WD5000AAKB-00H8A (scsi)
+Disk /dev/sda: 500GB
+Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
+Partition Table: msdos
+Number  Start  End    Size   Type     File system  Flags
+      512B   500GB  500GB  primary  ext3
+```
+----
+*Andreas Schamanek, 2015-09-12 22:43*
+Only recently I found the wonderful `lsblk` from the util-linux collection. This is a great alternative providing more details and a beautiful output with several options to configure it. `lsblk` should be available on all major Linux distributions by default.
+Example output:
+```
+# lsblk --ascii -o "NAME,TYPE,SIZE,FSTYPE,MOUNTPOINT"
+NAME    TYPE   SIZE FSTYPE MOUNTPOINT
+sda     disk 465.3G
+`-sda1  part 465.3G ext4   /home.nobak
+sdb     disk 223.1G
+|-sdb1  part   3.7G ext4   /
+|-sdb2  part   5.6G swap   \[SWAP\]
+|-sdb3  part     1K
+|-sdb5  part   9.3G ext4   /usr
+|-sdb6  part   4.7G ext4   /tmp
+|-sdb7  part   4.7G ext4   /var
+|-sdb8  part   4.7G ext4   /var/lib/mysql
+|-sdb9  part   4.7G ext4   /var/mail
+|-sdb10 part  97.8G ext4   /home
+`-sdb11 part    88G ext4
+```
+[Listing disks, partitions, and more]: https://fam.tuwien.ac.at/~schamane/_/blog:090914_listing_disks_partitions_and_more "blog:090914_listing_disks_partitions_and_more"
+[GNU parted]: http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/ "http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/"
+</markdown>

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