October 2010
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Identifying hard drives
I’ve had a Linux server at home with a lot of hard drives in it for many years. One of the most frustrating things about this has been when a drive eventually fails, it’s a pain to identify exactly which drive it is that has failed. This seems obviously in hindsight, but I recently realized that “hdparm -i /dev/sdx” will give you the serial number of a drive. So since I...