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> Does someone know what command can be used to display total capacity of
disk
> drive?  I can use command "df -k" but it breaks partitions apart so I have
> to add them up.  I need command just display a total.
>

for an IDE drive do:

cat /proc/ide/xxx/capacity

...where xxx is the disk drive u're interested in (hda, hdb,...). The size
returned is in 512b blocks


for SCSI it's not that easy


hth,

    Marin

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