Steve Matzura <s...@noisynotes.com> 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 a 120GB SSD, > which I presume is /dev/sda, is divided as follows according to df:
> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda1 8518920 879012 7184128 11% / > /dev/sda7 368615 2058 343005 1% /tmp > /dev/sda5 2817056 178752 2475488 7% /var > /dev/sda8 89493696 57076 84867532 1% /home > What, then, are /dev/sda2 and /dev/sda6? I tried looking at them with > FDisk and got the following: > For /dev/sda2: Failed to read extended partition table > (offset=5858805): Invalid argument > For /dev/sda6: device contains a valid 'swap' signature, it's strongly > recommended to wipe the device by command wipefs(8) if this setup is > unexpected to avoid possible collisions. /dev/sda5 to /dev/sda8 are logical partitions inside an extended partition. The extended partition is /dev/sda2. Hint: try the tool "lsblk" to see where which filesystem resides. Grüße -- Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.