Re: How do I see all my partitions?

[axel@pearbough.net]

Hi Chris!

On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Chris wrote:

> my winxp partition.  How do I display all the
> partitions, Win/Dos/Linux, in one place so I can
> give mount the correct partition name?

You might already have heard of fdisk. It is a tool to partition your hard
disks and also in fact the easiest way to see what partition is of what
type and has what number/name.
To call fdisk for your primary IDE slave call "fdisk /dev/hda" and you
will get something like this:

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1             1      9688   4882720+  83  Linux
/dev/hda2   *      9689     48440  19531008    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda3         48441    158816  55629504   83  Linux

(For example for your second SCSI disk it would be "fdisk /dev/sdb")

Here you can see that my windows partition is /dev/hda2 is of type NTFS.
To mount it you'll need an empty directory (e.g. /windows or /mnt/win) and
the necessary file system support for you kernel (in my case NTFS).

Then "mount <device>  <mount directory>". In my case this looks like:
     "mount /dev/hda2 /windows"


Have fun,
Axel
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