Re: [CentOS] Identifying physical disks

2011-05-03 Thread Jussi Hirvi
On 3.5.2011 22.05, Andy Holt wrote: > ls -l /dev/disk/by-id > > which on my system gives me: > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Mar 6 14:34 > scsi-SATA_SAMSUNG_HD154UIS1XWJ1BZ900317 -> ../../sdc > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Mar 6 14:34 > scsi-SATA_SAMSUNG_HD154UIS1XWJ1BZ900318 -> ../../sdb > lrwxrw

Re: [CentOS] Identifying physical disks

2011-05-03 Thread Andy Holt
> -Original Message- > From: centos-boun...@centos.org On Behalf Of Jussi Hirvi > Sent: 30/04/2011 10:31 > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: [CentOS] Identifying physical disks > > I am sure this is really simple. > > I have a setup of 2 disks (sda, sdb) which

Re: [CentOS] Identifying physical disks

2011-04-30 Thread Kay Diederichs
On 04/30/2011 11:30 AM, Jussi Hirvi wrote: > I am sure this is really simple. > > I have a setup of 2 disks (sda, sdb) which are outwardly identical, and > are mirrors of each other. Together they form 3 raid1 devices. Both > disks can boot. > > Now sda has bad sectors, and I should replace it. But

Re: [CentOS] Identifying physical disks

2011-04-30 Thread Jussi Hirvi
On 30.4.2011 12.34, Eero Volotinen wrote: > take look at serial number using smartctl > > http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/opensource/using-smartctl-to-get-smart-status-information-on-your-hard-drives/1389 > Thanks, I did. I am sure they will help me when it is time to actually replace the drive.

Re: [CentOS] Identifying physical disks

2011-04-30 Thread Eero Volotinen
2011/4/30 Jussi Hirvi : > I am sure this is really simple. > > I have a setup of 2 disks (sda, sdb) which are outwardly identical, and > are mirrors of each other. Together they form 3 raid1 devices. Both > disks can boot. > > Now sda has bad sectors, and I should replace it. But which one of the >

[CentOS] Identifying physical disks

2011-04-30 Thread Jussi Hirvi
I am sure this is really simple. I have a setup of 2 disks (sda, sdb) which are outwardly identical, and are mirrors of each other. Together they form 3 raid1 devices. Both disks can boot. Now sda has bad sectors, and I should replace it. But which one of the physical disks is sda?? The machi