Re: Names of Windows partitions

xerces8 wrote:
"cat /proc/partitions" gives a good list of present hard drives

Also "fdisk -l" gives a usable list of all hard drives (and their partitions).

Regards,
David




I tried these two commands ( just to learn ), and got a surprise.

this is the result from cat /proc/partitions > catpart



major minor #blocks name

8 0 312571224 sda
8 1 51199123 sda1
8 2 102398310 sda2
8 3 21093345 sda3
8 4 1 sda4
8 5 6032376 sda5
8 6 126447552 sda6
8 7 5397808 sda7



this is the result from sudo fdisk -l > fdskl.txt

Disk /dev/sda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x27f227f1

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 6374 51199123+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 6375 19122 102398310 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 19123 21748 21093345 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 21749 38913 137877862+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 38163 38913 6032376 82 Linux swap /
Solaris
/dev/sda6 21749 37490 126447552 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 37491 38162 5397808+ 82 Linux swap /
Solaris

Partition table entries are not in disk order



Why is sda4 so different???????????????????????

Doug Stewart


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