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>Finding information about partitions</TITLE
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>Chapter 8. Finding information about the system</TD
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>8.2. Finding information about partitions</H1
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>There are a number of ways to find out information on your hard disk drives, for information on mounted partitions also try<EM
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>Chapter 8</A
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>Using<6E>the<68>proc<6F>filesystem</DT
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>You can look through the information in the relevant area of the proc filesystem, under the directory of either /proc/ide/ or /proc/ide?/hd? where the first question mark is a number and the second is a letter (starting with 'a'). </P
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>For example:</P
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>cd /proc/ide0/hda</PRE
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>Under this directory there will be various information on the hard drive or cdrom connected.</P
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>Using<6E>fdisk<A
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>Using <EM
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>fdisk</EM
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> with the <EM
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>-l</EM
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> option will output information on any hard drives connected to the system and information on their partitions (for example, the type of partition).</P
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>Information relating to using <EM
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>fdisk</EM
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> to partition hard disks can be found in your distributions documentation, the <EM
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>fdisk</EM
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> manual page or online.</P
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> This command needs root access to work </P
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