An administrator needs to get a list of drives and partition types from existing servers. Which of the following commands should the administrator use to obtain this information?

The correct answer is A. blkid. probes all block devices and prints attributes including the file system type (TYPE), providing a list of drives and their partition types. lsscsi only lists SCSI devices, mount shows currently mounted filesystems, and partprobe informs the kernel of partition table changes…

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Ablkid
Blsscsi
Cmount
Dpartprobe

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A
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C
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D
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probes all block devices and prints attributes including the file system type (TYPE), providing a list of drives and their partition types. lsscsi only lists SCSI devices, mount shows currently mounted filesystems, and partprobe informs the kernel of partition table changes rather than displaying information.

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#Storage management#Block devices#Partitions#Linux commands

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