[ltp] True size of a hard disk?

[Vivek]

On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Angel de Vicente wrote:

> Does anybody know how can I find the true size of my HD irrespective of how
> many partitions / operating systems / etc. I have?

check /var/log/dmesg (or the output of dmesg just after booting),
you may well have lines like this:

hda: QUANTUM FIREBALLlct15 07, ATA DISK drive
hdc: TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-6702B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: 14668290 sectors (7510 MB) w/418KiB Cache, CHS=913/255/63, UDMA(66)
hdc: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33)

which will tell you want to know. Also, fdisk -l will give the info you
want (remember not to count any partitions with a number higher than the
'Extended partition'), eg:

vivek@arachne:~$ sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *         1        16    128488+  83  Linux
/dev/hda2            17        47    249007+  83  Linux
/dev/hda3            48       296   2000092+  83  Linux
/dev/hda4           297       913   4956052+   5  Extended
/dev/hda5           297       545   2000061   83  Linux
/dev/hda6           546       577    257008+  82  Linux swap
/dev/hda7           578       609    257008+  83  Linux
/dev/hda8           610       913   2441848+  83  Linux

The size is 128488 + 249007 + 2000092 + 4956052  = 7333639 Kb
  = 7161 Mb.

 [ Note that the two size numbers don't match up precisely:
   This is pretty normal, and not something to worry about ]