Tag: failure
How to get a hard drive serial number from udev.
by jfargen on Dec.26, 2012, under Uncategorized
Some times a hard drive will fail in such a way that tools like smartctl or hdparm is unable to get the hard drive serial number or in certain circumstances will give the wrong hard drive serial.
This may work some of the time, but it won’t always work depending on the type of failure a drive is experiencing. It is definitely a better alternative to try rather than getting someone to go down to the data center and pulling your drive.
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$ /sbin/udevadm info –query=property –name=drive| grep -i serial
Just replace drive for which physical drive you are trying to get details. In my case I use the command like so as an example.
$/sbin/udevadm info –query=property –name=sda| grep -i serial
