List all hard drives on system (with capacities)... How?

[Ronald F. Guilmette]

In message <50C12B6C.5020109 at tundraware.com>, 
Tim Daneliuk <tundra at tundraware.com> wrote:

>On 12/06/2012 05:30 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
>>
>> I'd like to write a small program or shell script that simply lists all
>> of the physical hard drives attached to the local system, along with their
>> product identifiers and their respective capacities.
>>
>> The following simple script works well for both PATA/SATA and USB hard drive
>s,
>> but it does not list drive capacities:
>>
>> #!/bin/sh
>>
>> atacontrol list | grep ':  ad[0-9]' | sed 's/^.*:  //'
>> camcontrol devlist | grep '(da[0-9]' | sed -E 's/^(.*) \((da[0-9]+).*$/\2 \1
>/'
>>
>>
>> How can I modify the script above in order to get it to print out the
>> respective drive capacities?
>
>Look into fdisk -s


Thank you Tim.

Silly me!  Before I even got your reply, I had already doen a bit more research
and I had found what I think may perhaps be an even better answer.

I never knew about this utility program called "diskinfo", but I just now
found it, and it seems to do the trick.

There appears to be a small problem with using fdisk -s... It looks like it
hiccups when and if the drive in question has not actually been partitioned
yet:

# fdisk -s /dev/ad6
fdisk: invalid fdisk partition table found


(The diskinfo utility apparently does not suffer from this problem.)