Partition and content

[Mark Greenwood]

On Monday 05 Jul 2010 18:27:12 Perry wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> In Hardy, Dolphin would display all the partitions (but swap), with the size 
> and label (when available) and, in the information part at right, the 
> partition name (e.g. sda11). I could also click to mount those partitions and 
> see what they contained (sda7 does not mount there, probably because it is 
> formated ext4)
> Hardy also had a tool for partitions under systemConfiguration advanced tab.
> 
> Under Jaunty and Karmic none of this is available.
> 
> How do you go about this, inspect the content of e.g. sda5 ?
> 
> This is only (for me now) an academic question, but I would be glad to have an 
> answer.
> 
> greetings		Perry
> 
> 
It doesn't appear to be possible to get Konqueror or Dolphin to show partitions.

You can install partitionmanager, which is a KDE frontend to parted. That appears in the system settings->advanced tab.

Mark