finding sizes of installed physical disks

How can I find the storage sizes of the installed physical disks in Solaris 8 on an Ultra-60? Please pardon the rudimentary question.

A glance at the 'df' man page gives me the impression that it's not the right tool, being that it reports filesystem usage on slices. 'prtdiag' doesn't report on the disks either.

[339 byte] By [dwerther] at [2007-11-25 23:18:38]

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Hello,Use format command. Then select the disk you want to "size". Type partition, then type print and look for the size of the second slice. This slice represents the whole disk. To exit, just type quit two times.Bye,jmiturbe

jmiturbe at 2007-7-5 18:06:58 >

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# 2

format seems to require superuser or root. How can a typical, normal user like me find sizes without intervention of a superuser?

dwerther at 2007-7-5 18:06:58 >

# 3

you should be able to enter "iostat -En" as a regular user. It is more of a sysadmin tool but it will give you the disk size as well as other info.rich

r484670 at 2007-7-5 18:06:58 >

# 4

Excellent! It gives exactly what I'm looking for. Thanks! -David

dwerther at 2007-7-5 18:06:58 >

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