interpreting iostat output

I'm running mojave on a macbook pro

If i run

iostat -d -c 3

from the command line, I get

disk0 disk2 disk3 disk4

KB/t tps MB/s KB/t tps MB/s KB/t tps MB/s KB/t tps MB/s

40.58 43 1.69 17.56 0 0.00 24.95 0 0.00 25.60 0 0.00

0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0 0.00

How do I map the disk numbers shown above to actual devices?

MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 10.13

Posted on Nov 28, 2020 8:57 AM

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BDAqua

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Nov 28, 2020 10:55 AM in response to red_wood

In Terminal...

diskutil list

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