A good way to get local disk information is using the fdisk command. Under Ubuntu, it goes a little something like this.
$ sudo fdisk -l
Don't forget the sudo, or you will only get the devices you plugged in (like USB hard drives).
The output of the command looks like this:
Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80000000000 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9726 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0xf216f216 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 9324 74894998+ 83 Linux /dev/sda2 9325 9726 3229065 5 Extended /dev/sda5 9325 9726 3229033+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris Disk /dev/sdb: 250.0 GB, 250000000000 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30394 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0xca3fb8d3 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 1 15197 122069871 83 Linux /dev/sdb2 15198 30394 122069902+ 83 Linux Disk /dev/sdc: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x000055c9 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdc1 1 19457 156288321 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
This is a good way to view available mount points or to examine the partitions on the disk.
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