Re: FDisk Help

2016-01-09 Thread Steve Matzura
Sven: On Thu, 7 Jan 2016 16:12:51 +0100, you wrote: >You said in your first mail that /dev/sda6 was swap. And since Linux >always numbers the logical partitions beginning from 5 and /dev/sda1 was >/, /dev/sda2 can only be the extended partition, containing sda5-8. >Simple deduction (and

Re: FDisk Help

2016-01-08 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Jan 07, 2016 at 04:53:34PM +0100, jdd wrote: > fdisk -l > > gives all the necessary info > > example: > > Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type > /dev/sdc1 * 2048 62910463 6290841630G 83 Linux > /dev/sdc262910464 937701375 874790912 417,1G

Re: FDisk Help

2016-01-08 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Jan 09, 2016 at 02:54:44AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Thu, Jan 07, 2016 at 04:53:34PM +0100, jdd wrote: [...] > > (but all I have at hand is an openSUSE, the debian version may be different) > > LOL, you do realise this is a list

Re: FDisk Help

2016-01-08 Thread jdd
Le 08/01/2016 14:54, Chris Bannister a écrit : On Thu, Jan 07, 2016 at 04:53:34PM +0100, jdd wrote: fdisk -l gives all the necessary info example: Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sdc1 * 2048 62910463 6290841630G 83 Linux /dev/sdc2

Re: FDisk Help

2016-01-07 Thread jdd
Le 07/01/2016 08:08, Steve Matzura a écrit : I actually tried answering my own questions by looking at an other running system to see how this is done, but the system is a different df is not the right tool to lokk at partitions, simply use "sudo fdisk -l" jdd

Re: FDisk Help

2016-01-07 Thread Sven Hartge
Steve Matzura wrote: > Sven: On Thu, 7 Jan 2016 08:29:46 +0100, you wrote: >> /dev/sda5 to /dev/sda8 are logical partitions inside an extended >> partition. The extended partition is /dev/sda2. > How did you know that? sda6 isn't even a mounted filesystem--sda1, 5, > 7 and

Re: FDisk Help

2016-01-07 Thread Steve Matzura
Sven: On Thu, 7 Jan 2016 08:29:46 +0100, you wrote: >/dev/sda5 to /dev/sda8 are logical partitions inside an extended >partition. The extended partition is /dev/sda2. How did you know that? sda6 isn't even a mounted filesystem--sda1, 5, 7 and 8 are the mounted filesystems for /, /tmp, /var, and

Re: FDisk Help

2016-01-07 Thread jdd
Le 07/01/2016 16:43, David Christensen a écrit : 'lsblk' can tell you the relationship between kernel names (e.g. sda, sda1, etc.) and mount points: $ lsblk not always. I just tested: lsblk only flag as swap the active swap partition fdisk -l gives all the necessary info example:

Re: FDisk Help

2016-01-06 Thread Sven Hartge
Steve Matzura wrote: > I have three physical drives in my system--/dev/sda is presumably my > boot drive, which shows up as six devices in /dev: > /dev/sda1,2,5,6,7,8. Additionally, there's a CD-ROM drive, and a 250GB > standard rotating disk. My boot partition is located on