RE: [newbie] Partition information?
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
Re: [newbie] Partition information?
Well the problem is not mine, I was merely responding to a question by someone else. df is a good tool, but for cases where not all partitions have been mounted and to find the locations of swap partitions (some people use several), gpart would be a better tool. I haven't tried this myself, it is only what I have read at the gpart website. A major feature of gpart is its ability to be able to identify partitions that have damaged identifier blocks, rendering them unmountable. On Sat, 10 Mar 2001 20:43, Daryl Johnson wrote: 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 -- 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
Re: [newbie] Partition information?
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 -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
Re: [newbie] Partition information?
"df" maybe?
Re: [newbie] Partition information?
DRX 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 DRXif you press the control key and while holding it down press the f2 key (ctl-f2) the minicli (mini command line interface) will launch. In the minicli window type: kdf then either press enter or click the run button. This program (kdiskfree) is also in the K-menu under applications-monitoring and is listed as diskfree. -- Alan
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
