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Hi. If anyone has multiple partitions (computer with Macintosh OS X) then please can u give me the output of system_profiler SPSerialATADataType command on the terminal?

If system_profiler SPSerialATADataType doesn't give any output then try one of the following:
system_profiler SPIDEDataType
system_profiler SPSerialSCSIDataType

Whichever command out of these three gives an output, please tell me what the output is. On my system i m having only 1 partition. I just want to know what the format of output is for multiple partitions. The output that i m getting on my system is as follows (for command system_profiler SPIDEDataType):

ATA:

ATA-4 Bus:

ST340015A:

Capacity: 37.27 GB
Model: ST340015A
Revision: 3.01
Serial Number: 5LAAKJCV
Removable Media: No
Detachable Drive: No
BSD Name: disk0
Protocol: ATA
Unit Number: 0
Socket Type: Internal
OS9 Drivers: Yes

Macintosh HD:

Capacity: 37.27 GB
Available: 15.96 GB
Writable: Yes
File System: Journaled HFS+
BSD Name: disk0s9
Mount Point: /

ATA-3 Bus:

HL-DT-ST CD-ROM GCR-8522B:

Model: HL-DT-ST CD-ROM GCR-8522B
Revision: 1.02
Serial Number:
Drive Type: CD-ROM
Removable Media: Yes
Detachable Drive: No
Protocol: ATAPI
Unit Number: 0
Socket Type: Internal

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Quick summary and a practical way to make sense of the outputs requested by . system reporting tools on macOS present information in a two-level way: the controller/bus, then each physical disk attached to that controller, and under each disk a “Volumes” section for every partition found on that disk. ’s example is a good illustration of one physical disk containing several volumes; when you have multiple partitions they appear as separate volume entries under the same physical-disk block and are listed with their BSD identifiers (the diskNsM names) and mount points.

To map things quickly on your machine, grab the partition table and then query individual BSD identifiers. The following commands are the simplest way to do that:

diskutil list
diskutil info disk0s2
mount

Interpretation tips: use the partition-table output to see which diskNsM entries exist; then use the per-disk info to confirm filesystem type, capacity and mount point. If a system report (the disk-focused system_profiler view) returns nothing for one data type, that usually means the machine doesn’t expose that bus type (so try the other disk-reporting views). ’s post shows both a per-disk “Volumes” block and the repeated per-BSD listings — that duplication is normal for the profiler output format.

If you post diagnostics here, include both the hardware profiler block for the relevant disk bus and the full output of diskutil list — together they let helpers match physical devices to BSD names and mounted volumes quickly. Note: modern macOS with APFS uses containers and the relationships look different in diskutil; in that case include the container listings as well.

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I guess the previous post of mine is lengthy and that's why people may not be reading it just by seeing its length. So to summarize:
i want someone, having multiple partitions on computer with macintosh as the operating system to try these 3 commands on the terminal. what is the output?

system_profiler SPSerialATADataType
system_profiler SPIDEDataType
system_profiler SPSerialSCSIDataType

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hf-mini:~ hf$ system_profiler SPSerialATADataType
Serial-ATA:

Intel ICH7-M AHCI:

Vendor: Intel
Product: ICH7-M AHCI
Speed: 1.5 Gigabit
Description: AHCI Version 1.10 Supported

WDC WD1200BEVS-00RST0:

Capacity: 111.79 GB
Model: WDC WD1200BEVS-00RST0
Revision: 04.01G04
Serial Number: WD-WXEY07153985
Native Command Queuing: Yes
Queue Depth: 32
Removable Media: No
Detachable Drive: No
BSD Name: disk0
OS9 Drivers: No
S.M.A.R.T. status: Verified
Volumes:
pending:
Capacity: 10.88 GB
Available: 10.85 GB
Writable: Yes
File System: Journaled HFS+
BSD Name: disk0s2
Mount Point: /Volumes/pending
Tiger:
Capacity: 10.88 GB
Available: 7.58 GB
Writable: Yes
File System: Journaled HFS+
BSD Name: disk0s3
Mount Point: /
WD-BIG:
Capacity: 89.47 GB
Available: 69.35 GB
Writable: Yes
File System: HFS+
BSD Name: disk0s4
Mount Point: /Volumes/WD-BIG
Volumes:
disk0s2:
Capacity: 10.88 GB
Available: 10.85 GB
Writable: Yes
File System: Journaled HFS+
disk0s3:
Capacity: 10.88 GB
Available: 7.58 GB
Writable: Yes
File System: Journaled HFS+
disk0s4:
Capacity: 89.47 GB
Available: 69.35 GB
Writable: Yes
File System: HFS+

hf-mini:~ hf$ system_profiler SPIDEDataType
hf-mini:~ hf$ system_profiler SPSerialSCSIDataType

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