Add ability to query physical disk metadata
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Description
Feature request
Get Hard Disk info
Product Name, Manufacturer, Size, Serial Number, vendor etc.
What new feature do you want?
There is a feature for getting disk-related info which is available for windows systems but not for Linux.
How is this new feature useful?
That way we can monitor the disk-related info across the organization.
How can this be implemented?
Not sure but the same info can be achieved from the below command:
lshw -class disk
*-disk
description: Disk
product: product A
vendor: vendorA
physical id: 0.0.0
bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/sda
version: 0000
serial: 12345678
size: 238GiB (256GB)
capabilities: gpt-1.00 partitioned partitioned:gpt
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Research direction
Compare the existing Windows disk-information feature with the output of lshw -class disk on Linux. Determine which fields should be exposed for product name, manufacturer, size, serial number, and vendor, then verify that Linux disk queries return comparable metadata.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp, linux
- Domain
- operating-systems
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100