Partition and content

[O. Sinclair]

On 05/07/2010 20:33, Mark Greenwood wrote:
> 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.

you will get almost the same result by setting the Device Notifier 
widget to show all devices, not only "removable" which is the standard 
setting

Sinclair