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Using diskutil to obtain disk drive info on OS X

To obtain information on the disk drives attached to a Mac OS X system, including the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T), aka SMART, status of drives. you can use the diskutil list command, which will show all of the disk drives attached to the system.

Pams-Computer:~ pam$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *250.1 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            249.7 GB   disk0s2
/dev/disk1
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *8.0 GB     disk1
   1:                 DOS_FAT_32 SI_IMPRESS              8.0 GB     disk1s1
Pams-Computer:~ pam$

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Fri, Jul 24, 2015 10:06 pm