Re: Listing Partitions?


Stefan Patric wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 14:13:25 -0600, Dave Uhring wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 11:38:21 -0800, Stefan Patric wrote:
> >
> >> On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 12:19:15 -0600, Dave Uhring wrote:
> >
> >> That will only get you the partitions on hda. However,
> >>
> >> cat /proc/partitions
> >>
> >> will report all the drive(s), their partitions by number and the
> >> respective sizes.
> >
> > And it will *not* report the filesystem ID. The OP is looking for FAT32
> > partitions.
> > [snip]
>
> This is true, but the OP is using Ubuntu, which won't permit a normal
> user to call fdisk, even with the -l option. And since Ubuntu has root
> disabled, you can't log in as root or run 'su' in a terminal to do it.
> However, normal users can call cat /proc/partitions, which will give the
> partition numbers of all partitions, mounted or not, which is what the OP
> said he wanted.
>
> FWIW, there is a procedure, unique to Ubuntu, for using 'su'.
>
> Stef

that is most certainly odd...why would they do that?

i can easily run sudo in a konsole and run commands such as lspci -vv,
fdisk -l, etc (or on any other CLI tool) in Knoppix - if that isn't
enough, there's always CTRL+Alt+F1 ...no?

Perhaps i'm missing it, but what is this unique 'procedure'? - and does
it apply to Kubuntu, as well as Ubuntu ?...and is this at all
'dependent' upon the Desktop Environment (Ubuntu's gtk+/GNOME),
(Kubuntu's Qt/KDE) ? (I wouldn't think so)

.

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