Is there any way of detecting if a drive is a SSD?

Question

I\'m getting ready to release a tool that is only effective with regular hard drives, not SSD (solid state drive). In fact, it shouldn\'t be used with SSD\'s because it will

Answer 1

This command lsblk -d -o name,rota lists your drives and has a 1 at ROTA if it's a rotational disk and a 0 if it's an SSD. Example output :

NAME ROTA
sda     1
sdb     0