Disk management commands

List partitions and drives

lsblk

Manipulate partition or list them with:

fdisk -l

Using the disk free command:

df -h

Partition manager utility

parted -l

Get detailed info on hardware, memory, firmware, mainboard, bus

lshw

Relative to mounted drives:

lshw -class disk

Get that information as html (JSON, XML) page:

lshw -class disk -html

List disks by ID, label, UUID…:

ls -l /dev/disk/by-id
ls -l /dev/disk/by-label
ls -l /dev/disk/by-partlabel
ls -l /dev/disk/by-partuuid
ls -l /dev/disk/by-path
ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid

sfdisk utility for manipulating disk partitions. List block devices:

fsdisk -l

source: https://learnubuntu.com/list-drives/

Smart monitor tool

smartctl -a /dev/nvme0

Mount a drive

mkdir /media/usbstick
mount /dev/sdbX /media/usbstick

Delete files

Delete all files in all folders starting with 2023 living in the current folder

rm -rf 2023*

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