questions related with partiton?

[A.Fadyushin at it-centre.ru]

All available devices could be found in the system information presented
in /proc pseudo filesystem. The list of devices in /dev is a list of
potentially available devices (i.e. devices for which the drivers
exists) not a devices which actually present in the computer system.

When you found which devices you have, you can list the partitions using
fdisk -l <device_name> This command will also show the information about
the types of filesystem(s) on the device partition(s). Note that this
information is from the boot block, not from the filesystem(s) itself
and, therefore, may be incorrect. The best way to determine file system
type is to mount it with different file system types in '-t' option of
the 'mount' command.
Information on the drive hardware could be seen with the use of 'hdparm'
command (options '-I' and '-i'). You will need to give a drive name
(e.g. /dev/had) as a parameter to this command.

Alexey Fadyushin
Brainbench MVP for Linux.
http://www.brainbench.com


> -----Original Message-----
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> bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Edward.D.Kramer at wellsfargo.com
> Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 11:06 PM
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> Subject: RE: questions related with partiton?
> 
> Some handy commands I would man would be:
> 
> fdisk -l  which will show you what devices you have
> e2label (THANK YOU RICK STEVENS I LOVE THIS COMMAND :))
> df -k  should help on drive space info.
> mkfs   to create filesystems.
> 
> Be sure to look at all of their SEE ALSO commands, you will find some
> handy tools.
> 
> You can view also view your mtab and fstab files, but be VERY
carefully
> when messing with these files, and only make changes that you
completely
> understand or your system may not BOOT next time :)
> 
> DK
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Bharadwaj
> Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 09:16 AM
> To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
> Subject: questions related with partiton?
> 
> 1) which linux command will tell, all available devices? like hda ,
hdb
> 2) which linux command will tell,all available partions? ;like  hda5,
> hda6
> 3) which linux command give drive informations?  like  IDE ,
> 4) which linux command give me, type of file system acorss all drives?
> 
> Thankx
> Bharadwaj.
> 
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