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lsblk -d -o NAME,SIZE,TYPE | grep disk

show me the such things

sda  894.3G disk
sdb  894.3G disk
sdc    3.7T disk
sdd    3.7T disk
nbd0    64G disk

Are the sda and sdc have sdb and sdd similarly physical devices? Either they're "physical" and "logical" devices?

It's not my own server, so I cannot see its specifications. The server was deployed without my participation.

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  • What makes you think there is an issue here? I mean, what is it that seems strange? Commented Jan 30, 2024 at 10:45
  • I cannot understand why are they exactly the same disk pairs. Are they separate 4 physical disks? It's one of the on-support servers, and I have never seem such things at another servers. Commented Jan 30, 2024 at 11:06
  • @terdon hm. I've used hdparm and saw there're two separate disks of one model with different Serial Number`s. Commented Jan 30, 2024 at 11:10
  • @terdon I posted answer below. Commented Jan 30, 2024 at 11:14
  • Possibly two logical devices set up as two mirrors of two disks each? Commented Jan 30, 2024 at 12:08

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Yes, those are 5 separate disks. You have 4 disks connected via the SCSI interface (sda, sdb, sdc and sdd). You also have one network block device, a physical disk on a remote machine that has been made available to your machine over NBD.

This is quite a normal setup (apart from the NBD which isn't very common these days). You very often have similar disks on a server since the server's administrator would have bought a few together and since having disks of the same size makes setting up RAID systems is much simpler. It isn't strange or surprising.

You can investigate further using parted -l which will will show the model and make of the disks. Or you can use more general commands for hardware information like lshw or hwinfo.

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  • Those pairs are also likely in some form of RAID1/mirror configuration for redundancy whether that's with mdadm/lvm/zfs/btrfs... lsblk without options may tell the OP more. Commented Jan 30, 2024 at 12:28
  • Ah yes, good point @StéphaneChazelas, I added a note about RAID. Commented Jan 30, 2024 at 12:35
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I've used hdparm util and check info about sda and sdb disks. They're disks of one model, but every of them have separate Serial Number. So they're separate but similar physical devices.

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