--- In [email protected], "highskywhy@..." <highskywhy@...> wrote: > > > So Mär 17 07:24:40 2013 > Good morning > Thank You for email and help.
<snip> > How can I check this? > Can I find in www > the difference between SATA abd PATA? Keep reading. I explained how to know below. > > > You can figure this out using the following method when > in Xubuntu. From the command line type: > > df -h > * > OK > > > > 7p:~$ df -h > Dateisystem Größe Benutzt Verf. Verw% Eingehängt auf > /dev/sda6 30G 14G 14G 50% / > udev 1,9G 4,0K 1,9G 1% /dev > tmpfs 748M 780K 748M 1% /run > none 5,0M 0 5,0M 0% /run/lock > none 1,9G 19M 1,9G 1% /run/shm > none 100M 24K 100M 1% /run/user > 7p:~$ > > > Did I do it right? yes > > > This will give you a list of all partitions currently mounted. > * > A litte bit I can understand the result of df -h > > > Now I am using > Xubuntu > maybe it is important to know. > > There should be one mounted to /. This is the partition on > which Xubuntu is loaded. Remove the final number and you > get the proper disk on which to install grub. For example > here is mine: > > $ df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda3 39G 5.8G 31G 16% / > udev 3.9G 4.0K 3.9G 1% /dev > tmpfs 1.6G 1.1M 1.6G 1% /run > none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock > none 3.9G 1.1M 3.9G 1% /run/shm > none 100M 12K 100M 1% /run/user > /dev/sda4 39G 7.9G 29G 22% /alt_boot > /dev/sda5 834G 517G 275G 66% /data > //10.100.1.202/OracleRetail$ 40G 16G 24G 40% /data/alsshare > * > Thank You. > > Notice that / is /dev/sda3. Removing the number, the proper disk > on which to install grub is /dev/sda. > * > I did not understand this. I take the line where "Mounted on" is /. That partition or "Filesystem" as in the listing above is /dev/sda3. In your case, it is /dev/sda6. Removing the trailing number that means the disk where you want to install grub is /dev/sda. Here is what all this means. All "devices" on a Linux or Unix system are always listed under the /dev folder. For example a floppy device would be listed as /dev/fd0 or /dev/fd1 etc. fd0 would be the first floppy drive and fd1 would be the second. /dev/hd* is for IDE or ATA devices. The first would be /dev/hda, etc. The first SCSI device would be /dev/sda. When SATA devices came along, the powers that be in Linux decided just to use the SCSI device designation. The first SATA device would be /dev/sda. Partitions on a device are listed with a trailing number. For example, on your system, Xubuntu's / is on partition 6 listed as /dev/sda6. <snip> > That means when I install a new OS on the > system, I just have to add that partition to the new OS as > /data WITHOUT FORMATTING and all of my data files are there > without having to restore from backup to see my documents. > > * > So You could change vom > Debian to Fedora > and keep You partition with data files unchanged? Yes, so long as we are talking about the latest version of each. In fact I do exactly this. <snip> > Can I do this later? Absolutely you can do this later. I understand running before you walk. I started out keeping everything Linux under a single partition. When I found out from suggestions on this list that keeping a separate data partition would be a good idea, I incorporated that in my next install. My suggestion would be that you might want to do this the next time there is a Xubuntu upgrade. Loyal <snip> ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please email [email protected] & you will be removed.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
