Linux View Hard Drive Partitions with fdisk and parted commands
Q. I'd like to see all the partitions on my scsi hard drives. Under Windows Disk manager shows exactly how space is allocated on the disk drivers and free space etc. How do I display hard drive partitions information?
A. You can use any one of the following command:
[a] fdisk command : Partition table manipulator for Linux
[b] GNU Parted : a partition manipulation program
fdisk -l command
To list the partition tables for the specified devices and then exit. If no devices are given, those mentioned in /proc/partitions (if that exists) are used i.e. it will try to display all partitions, enter:
$ sudo fdisk -l
OR
# fdisk -l
Output
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x000f1a3e Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 12749 102400000 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda2 12750 24906 97651102+ 83 Linux /dev/sda3 24907 25149 1951897+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda4 25150 60802 286375936 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sda5 25150 60802 286374912 7 HPFS/NTFS
GNU parted command
Pass print option to displays the partition table, enter:
$ sudo parted /dev/sda print
Output:
Disk /dev/sda: 500GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 1049kB 105GB 105GB primary ntfs boot 2 105GB 205GB 100GB primary ext3 3 205GB 207GB 1999MB primary linux-swap 4 207GB 500GB 293GB extended lba 5 207GB 500GB 293GB logical ntfs Information: Don't forget to update /etc/fstab, if necessary.
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Tags: disk drivers, disk manager, fdisk_command, hard drive partitions, parted_command, partition table, scsi hard drives
July 1st, 2008 (5 days ago) at 8:45 am
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