On 08/19/2010 09:02 PM, Antonio Huete Jimenez wrote: > 2010/8/19 Sascha Wildner <s...@online.de>: >> On 8/19/2010 14:54, Aggelos Economopoulos wrote: >> Well, I thought we're talking about a simple utility to help the user find >> the corresponding /dev/serno/... for e.g. a /dev/da... node and not about >> some full fledged disk attribute dumping utility (which tuxillo's doesn't >> seem to be). If that is what's wanted here, we should use a different name >> at least (devattr(8) perhaps? any other ideas?) and view the serno >> information as a first feature with more to come. >> >> Sascha > > Okay, agreed. I will rename it to devattr(8). Adding more > functionality in the future looks like a better idea than having > separate tools for this and that.
devattr(8)? As in, "dump all attributes we have for every device"? I was thinking of a disk-specific utility. We could do that, but we should make sure there isn't much duplication with sysctl. Aggelos