Ubuntu
partman-target package

  1. Bug #864051
  2. Comment #7

Comment 7 for bug 864051

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Mark East (feasty) wrote :

You can detect the disk type from the following file:

/sys/block/sda/queue/rotational

Just cat it. 1 means it's rotational, 0 means it is an SSD. Just change sda to be the disk you want to inspect. You will also need root privileges to view the file.