Improved wizard by adding ability to select disks from list.

[szaydel]

Because it is at times difficult to tell which disks are which, as well as error prone to type in potentially really long disk IDs for devices on a SAS controller that presents a long c#t#d# I wanted to add a menu-like selection similar to what is already done for NICs. I found this to be easier, especially when I have several disks that I need to pick from.

A rudimentary menu gives some information about disks and selection is indexed. Top 10 disks are displayed, which could possibly be a problem with some systems.

Number            Device Vendor   Product          Size     Serial
0                 c1t0d0 VMware   Virtual          17.18GB  6000c298246baa3
1                 c1t1d0 VMware   Virtual          8.59GB   6000c2958fba0d0
2                 c1t2d0 VMware   Virtual          8.59GB   6000c29c3fb9c91
3                 c1t3d0 VMware   Virtual          8.59GB   6000c291457915d
4                 c1t4d0 VMware   Virtual          8.59GB   6000c295d0e6b01
5                 c1t5d0 VMware   Virtual          8.59GB   6000c294447015c

[konobi]

Seems like you'd be better off using the diskinfo tool rather than attempting to parse yourself. This will also indicate if a drive is removable or an SSD.

[szaydel]

@konobi - Yeah, can do. Though I did not think this was much of an issue. SSD is a good point though.

[konobi]

diskinfo also takes -Hp as options to remove the header and to make each field tab separated for parsing.

[szaydel]

Maybe something like this will do, though for my own purposes I like the output that I am producing better because I get a serial number, which again for me is of value, as it may be for others.

diskinfo -Hp | awk '{OFS="\t"; print $2,$3,$4,$5,$6,$7}'

Maybe next step is to enhance diskinfo.