Yet your problem, as stated, just asked for a way of listing the partitions
because you had lost your aide memoire. df appears to do exactly what you
asked - and you are clearly aware of /swap without being reminded :o)
Oh and BTW like another poster I too was unaware of kdf, what a cool little
gizmo.
Is there a larger problem here that you haven't defined yet Sridhar?
Daryl Johnson
Proplan Associates
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sridhar Dhanapalan
> Sent: 10 March 2001 02:15
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [newbie] Partition information?
>
>
> 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
>
> --
> Sridhar Dhanapalan.
> "There are two major products that come from Berkeley:
> LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence."
> -- Jeremy S. Anderson
>
>
