The problem with df is that it only lists mounted partitions and it
omits swap partitions. I believe there is a programme called gpart
that can identify partitons, even damaged ones.
On Sat, 10 Mar 2001 06:03, Michael O'Henly wrote:
> Oh, boy. I don't know if Linux is up for that! :-)
>
> Try "df" at the command prompt.
>
> Cheers.
>
> M.
>
> On Thursday 08 March 2001 16:09, you wrote:
> > I have gone and lost the paper on which I had written down
> > what partitions on the hard disk contain which Linux partitions.
> > Is there some way to get informaion about this in Linux -- some
> > kind of command I can give, or some kind of application I can run?
> >
> > The best thing would be if I could get that information in a
> > form that I can understand, preferably something like this:
> >
> >
> > /dev/hda5 / 1.2 GB
> > /dev/hda6 /usr 1.2 GB
> > /dev/hda7 /home 650 MB
> > /dev/hda8 /swap 500 MB
> >
> >
> > I understand that this is probably asking way too much
> > though, so I'll settle for information about how big the
> > partitions are, and what they are called (/dev/hda?). I can
> > probably figure out what they contain just by getting information
> > on how big they are.
> >
> > DRX
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