De las dudas más comunes, es cómo obtener información del hardware, sobre todo del disco duro, para esto, la mejor manera, es utilizando smartctl, comando que es parte del paquete smartmontools. Para usarlo se debe:
[~]# smartctl -i /dev/sda
smartctl 6.5 2016-05-07 r4318 [x86_64-linux-4.15.6-200.fc26.x86_64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-16, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model: TOSHIBA MQ01ACF050
Serial Number: 15RICDOST
LU WWN Device Id: 5 000039 603b88b2c
Firmware Version: AV0A1C
User Capacity: 500,107,862,016 bytes [500 GB]
Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
Rotation Rate: 7200 rpm
Form Factor: 2.5 inches
Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
ATA Version is: ATA8-ACS (minor revision not indicated)
SATA Version is: SATA 3.0, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is: Mon Mar 12 18:32:15 2018 -03
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
Como se ve, rápidamente se obtiene todo lo necesario, incluso, el form factor y velocidad.
