On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > Miner, Jonathan W (CSC) (US SSA) wrote: > > fdisk -l | egrep '^Disk /dev/.*[hs]d' | wc -l > Actually..... > > > fdisk -l | egrep '^Disk /dev/.*[hs]d' | wc -l > Disk /dev/md0 doesn't contain a valid partition table > Disk /dev/md1 doesn't contain a valid partition table > Disk /dev/md2 doesn't contain a valid partition table > Disk /dev/md3 doesn't contain a valid partition table > Disk /dev/md4 doesn't contain a valid partition table > Disk /dev/md5 doesn't contain a valid partition table > Disk /dev/md6 doesn't contain a valid partition table > Disk /dev/md7 doesn't contain a valid partition table > Disk /dev/md8 doesn't contain a valid partition table > Disk /dev/md9 doesn't contain a valid partition table > Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table > Disk /dev/dm-1 doesn't contain a valid partition table > 5 > > > Granted I got my answer at the bottom there....but...you get the idea. : so just toss the errors: > fdisk -l 2> /dev/null | egrep ...blah blah ... rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca ========================================================================