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joe2005

23rd November 2009 05:57

Identifying partitions

I have very recently installed Ubuntu 9.0 and now I have multi boot system
My PC is fitted with two hard disks.While I Am on Ubuntu Eventhough I could access all the partitions I am not able to identify quickly the partitions because
the information displayed as new volume,new volume .etc.request guidance to access the partitions in a manner so that identification is easy.Hope I have explained my difficulty properly.thanks

falko

24th November 2009 14:31

How are volumes displayed on your system? What's the output of

Code:

fdisk -l

sjau	27th November 2009 13:27

as it's ubuntu it needs to be:

Code:

sudo fdisk -l

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