Re: (OT) how to identify a partition

[walto]

I am not sure that I understood what you need but maybe Sys::Filesystem fits your needs.

Update:
After you specified your question this could be helpful

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
#
#
use strict;

my $partitions = `hdparm -i /dev/hda|grep Model`;
my ($model,$firmware,$serial_no)=split /,/,$partitions;
my @model = split /=/,$model;
my @serial_no=split /=/,$serial_no;
my @firmware=split /=/,$firmware;

print "Model = $model[1]\tFirmware=$firmware[1]\tSerial No=$serial_no[
+1]\n";

The script must be run with root priviliges. If you use sudo you can use
my $partitions = `sudo hdparm -i /dev/hda|grep Model`;

[leocharre]

Sys::Filesystem is a little bit helpful, yes.

Your suggestion hdparm is spectacularly useful. I can get a serial id off the drive this way! This helps identify a drive, marvelously.

I'm still looking into identifying an actual partition. I have a hack to identify a filesystem, via the filesystem. But there must be something in the fs format that has this as well.

Thank you, very useful!