30.1. Identifying available storage and partitions

30.1. Identifying available storage and partitions

Verify the block driver is loaded and the devices and partitions are available to the guest. This can be done by executing "cat /proc/partitions" as seen below. 

# cat /proc/partitions
major minor  #blocks   name 
 202    16  104857600  xvdb
   3     0    8175688  hda

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