DISKINFO(8) BSD System Manager's Manual DISKINFO(8)NAMEdiskinfo — get information about disk device
SYNOPSISdiskinfo [-ctv] disk ...
DESCRIPTION
The diskinfo utility prints out information about a disk device, and
optionally runs a naive performance test on the device.
If given no arguments, the output will be a single line per specified
device with the following fields: device name, sectorsize, media size in
bytes, media size in sectors, stripe size, stripe offset, firmware cylin‐
ders, firmware heads, and firmware sectors. The last three fields are
only present if the information is available.
If given the -v option, the fields will be printed one per line with a
descriptive comment.
The -c option triggers a simple measurement of the I/O read command over‐
head.
The -t option triggers a simple and rather naive benchmark of the disks
seek and transfer performance.
HISTORY
The diskinfo command appeared in FreeBSD 5.1.
AUTHORS
Poul-Henning Kamp
BUGS
There are in order of increasing severity: lies, damn lies, statistics,
and computer benchmarks.
BSD November 9, 2004 BSD