[Gllug] Home sweet home

John Hearns hearnsj at googlemail.com
Mon Dec 28 21:59:20 UTC 2009


2009/12/28 John G Walker <johngeoffreywalker at yahoo.co.uk>:
>
>
> First, how do I determine what partitions I have. In particular, I'd
> like to make sure I'm mounting the correct partition. There must be
> commands to list partitions and partition contents, but I've never come
> across them. I can't possibly see how a professional sysadmin could
> work without these.


fdisk -l


Regarding the contents of a partition... the only way I know is to
mount the thing as (say) /mnt/tmp
and go see wat is in there!
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