lsblk odd results

[Robert Heller]

At Thu, 21 Feb 2019 20:43:20 -0000 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> Hi all
> 
> I have been trying to check (confirm) if some of my laptop drives are SSD's
> 
> $ lsblk -d -o Name,Rota
> 
> returns 1's for all drives (I take to mean all are Rotational drives not Solid 
> State), I got curious as I was sure some had SSD's so I pluged in a pair of usb 
> memory stick/flash drives they also return "1's" so something is not correct

Hmmm... On my CentOS 6 laptop:

sudo lsblk -d -o Name,Rota
NAME ROTA
sda     0
sr0     1

And from smartctl:

smartctl 5.43 2016-09-28 r4347 
[x86_64-linux-2.6.32-754.10.1.el6.centos.plus.x86_64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-12 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model:     SanDisk SD6SB1M128G1001
Serial Number:    142483409418
LU WWN Device Id: 5 001b44 c3841460a
Firmware Version: X232201
User Capacity:    128,035,676,160 bytes [128 GB]
Sector Size:      512 bytes logical/physical
Device is:        Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
ATA Version is:   8
ATA Standard is:  ATA-8-ACS revision 6
Local Time is:    Thu Feb 21 18:25:12 2019 EST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

This is a SSD.

gollum.deepsoft.com% lsblk -V
lsblk from util-linux-ng 2.17.2

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