Disk

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A disk is a device to store data, e.g. a compact disk or a hard disk. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk. Disk related commands:

hwinfo --block
hwinfo --partition

Get information

hdparm -I /dev/hda

Find out throughput

hdparm -tT /dev/hda

Hibernate hard disk

hdparm -S60 /dev/hda