How do I see all my partitions?

How do I see all my partitions?

[Chris]

Hi, I'm a new Red Hat user and want to mount
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?

Thank you,
Chris


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Re: How do I see all my partitions?

[Ray Olszewski]

At 10:23 PM 12/17/02 -0500, Chris wrote:
>Hi, I'm a new Red Hat user and want to mount
>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?

To look at all the partitions on one physical disk, you use "fdisk" pointed 
to the physical device for the drive. or example, if your drive is the IDE 
primary master, use "fdisk /dev/hda". Once in fdisk, choose "p" to "print" 
(actually, to display onscreen) the list of partitions and their associated 
device names. Then "q" to quit without saving. You'll need to be root to 
run fdisk.

If you have several hard disks, you need to do each separately, following 
this pattern

         IDE primary master      /dev/hda
         IDE primary slave       /dev/hdb
         IDE secondary master    /dev/hdc
         IDE secondary slave     /dev/hdd


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Re: How do I see all my partitions?

[axel]

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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Thank you (Re: How do I see all my partitions?)

[Chris]

Thank you...
Now I feel like I should have known to look there 1st.   Duh.

Hopefully I won't be a  newbie too long...

Chris

At 11:47 AM Wednesday 12/18/2002, you wrote:
>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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Re: How do I see all my partitions?

[Ray Olszewski]

There is a small error of detail in axel's reply. He writes:

>To call fdisk for your primary IDE slave call "fdisk /dev/hda" and you
>will get something like this:

/dev/hda is the IDE primary *master*, not the IDE primary *slave* (which is 
/dev/hdb).

At 11:47 AM 12/18/02 +0100, axel@pearbough.net wrote:
[deleted]


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Re: How do I see all my partitions?

[axel]

Hi Ray!

On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Ray Olszewski wrote:

> >To call fdisk for your primary IDE slave call "fdisk /dev/hda" and you
> >will get something like this:
> 
> /dev/hda is the IDE primary *master*, not the IDE primary *slave* (which is 
> /dev/hdb).

Ooops. Sorry. Was unintentionally! :)

Axel
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Re: How do I see all my partitions?

[Chris]

OK...now that I can see all my partitions, how do I mount an NTFS
partition?
When I try, I receive the error "fs now supported by kernel."
I'm running Red Hat 8.0 (sorry, no idea what the kernel version is - how
do I find this info?).

Can the kernel be patched to support NTFS?

Thank you,
Chris

At 09:18 AM Wednesday 12/18/2002, Ray Olszewski wrote:
>There is a small error of detail in axel's reply. He writes:
>
>>To call fdisk for your primary IDE slave call "fdisk /dev/hda" and you
>>will get something like this:
>
>/dev/hda is the IDE primary *master*, not the IDE primary *slave* (which 
>is /dev/hdb).
>
>At 11:47 AM 12/18/02 +0100, axel@pearbough.net wrote:
>[deleted]
>
>
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Re: How do I see all my partitions?

[Ray Olszewski]

At 09:26 PM 12/22/02 -0500, Chris wrote:
>OK...now that I can see all my partitions, how do I mount an NTFS
>partition?
>When I try, I receive the error "fs now supported by kernel."

I suspect it says "not" rather than "now". (Sorry to seem picky, and the 
mistake is easy to spot here, but in troubleshooting, details matter, and a 
seemling harmless mistake in reporting error messages can lead to the wrong 
diagnosis.)

And I'm assuming your try consists of a command like "mount -t ntfs 
/dev/hdXX /mnt/some_mount_point", with suitable choices for XX and 
some_mount_point .If not, plase tell us the exact command you enter and the 
exact error you get.

>I'm running Red Hat 8.0 (sorry, no idea what the kernel version is - how
>do I find this info?).

"uname -a" normally reports it.

>Can the kernel be patched to support NTFS?

Probably ... though it does depend on the kernel version, RH8 is unlikely 
to use an old kernel by default. Recent kernels support read-only access to 
NTFS filesystems. If yours has the ntfs.o moule compiled, you can add it 
with "insmod ntfs" or (better) "modprobe ntfs". If it doesn't come with 
that module, you'll need to compile or get a kernel that does have it 
(either the module or actuallt compiled into the kernel).


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Re: How do I see all my partitions?

[Chris]

Yep, I meant "not" not "now."  It was a tpyo.

As far as compiling a kernel goes, I don't believe I'm ready for that.  I'm 
still at the
point of staring at the PC for 20 minutes, and banging away on the keyboard 
for another
20 minutes, trying to accomplish something, before giving up and looking in 
my "dummies" book.

Thanks for your help,
Chris

At 07:04 PM Sunday 12/22/2002, Ray Olszewski wrote:
>At 09:26 PM 12/22/02 -0500, Chris wrote:
>>OK...now that I can see all my partitions, how do I mount an NTFS
>>partition?
>>When I try, I receive the error "fs now supported by kernel."
>
>I suspect it says "not" rather than "now". (Sorry to seem picky, and the 
>mistake is easy to spot here, but in troubleshooting, details matter, and 
>a seemling harmless mistake in reporting error messages can lead to the 
>wrong diagnosis.)
>
>And I'm assuming your try consists of a command like "mount -t ntfs 
>/dev/hdXX /mnt/some_mount_point", with suitable choices for XX and 
>some_mount_point .If not, plase tell us the exact command you enter and 
>the exact error you get.
>
>>I'm running Red Hat 8.0 (sorry, no idea what the kernel version is - how
>>do I find this info?).
>
>"uname -a" normally reports it.
>
>>Can the kernel be patched to support NTFS?
>
>Probably ... though it does depend on the kernel version, RH8 is unlikely 
>to use an old kernel by default. Recent kernels support read-only access 
>to NTFS filesystems. If yours has the ntfs.o moule compiled, you can add 
>it with "insmod ntfs" or (better) "modprobe ntfs". If it doesn't come with 
>that module, you'll need to compile or get a kernel that does have it 
>(either the module or actuallt compiled into the kernel).
>
>
>--
>-------------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"--------
>Ray Olszewski                                   -- Han Solo
>Palo Alto, California, USA                        ray@comarre.com
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Re: How do I see all my partitions?

[whitnl73]

On Sun, 22 Dec 2002, Chris wrote:

> OK...now that I can see all my partitions, how do I mount an NTFS
> partition?
> When I try, I receive the error "fs now supported by kernel."
> I'm running Red Hat 8.0 (sorry, no idea what the kernel version is - how
> do I find this info?).
>
> Can the kernel be patched to support NTFS?
>
> Thank you,
> Chris
>
Try /sbin/modprobe ntfs

a stock distro kernel may already have it.

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Re: How do I see all my partitions?

[Chuck Gelm]

cat /var/log/messages|grep hd|grep "server kernel"|grep -v sectors

 Works for me.  However, I'm using a Slackware distribution.

HTH, Chuck


Chris wrote:
> 
> Hi, I'm a new Red Hat user and want to mount
> 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?
> 
> Thank you,
> Chris
> 
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