#!/bin/sh -e uname_s="$(uname -s)" case $uname_s in FreeBSD) sysctl -n kern.disks ;; OpenBSD) sysctl -n hw.disknames | grep -Eo '[lsw]d[0-9]+' | xargs ;; NetBSD) PATH="${PATH}:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin" sysctl -n hw.disknames \ | awk 'BEGIN { RS = " " } /^[lsw]d[0-9]+/' \ | xargs ;; Linux) # list of major device numbers toexclude: # ram disks, floppies, cdroms # https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/admin-guide/devices.txt ign_majors='1 2 11' if command -v lsblk >/dev/null 2>&1 then lsblk -e "$(echo "$ign_majors" | tr ' ' ',')" -dno name | xargs elif test -d /sys/block/ then # shellcheck disable=SC2012 ls -1 /sys/block/ \ | awk -v ign_majors="$(echo "$ign_majors" | tr ' ' '|')" ' { devfile = "/sys/block/" $0 "/dev" getline devno < devfile close(devfile) if (devno !~ "^(" ign_majors "):") print }' \ | xargs else echo "Don't know how to list disks on Linux without lsblk and sysfs." >&2 echo 'If you can, please submit a patch.'>&2 fi ;; *) printf "Don't know how to list disks for %s operating system.\n" "${uname_s}" >&2 printf 'If you can please submit a patch\n' >&2 ;; esac