Where are my partitions?

Avraham Hanadari rufus at hanadari.net
Mon Dec 25 19:30:16 UTC 2006


Not on my version of Ubuntu. There's something called Device Manager, 
but it just lists the Windows name of the Windows data partition. I'm 
giving up. I guess I'm still not ready for Linux ... or Linux isn't 
ready for my desktop.
Avraham

Lorin Pino wrote:
> Avraham Hanadari wrote:
>> Why is this so difficult to understand? I must know the Linux names of 
>> the Windows partitions in order to mount them. I cannot know the names 
>> of the Windows partitions if I can't see them in a list somewhere. That 
>> information used to be readily available in earlier versions of Ubuntu. 
>> Where has it gone? It is NOT in my home folder. It is not among the 
>> various collections of folders. Is there a list somewhere? There used to 
>> be an application that showed the partitions as well. I have not been 
>> able to find it.
>>
>> Avraham
>>
>>   
> I have not followed this whole thread, so this may have been posted 
> before.  Is System>Administration>Disks what you are looking for?  It 
> brings up a list of drives.  When you click on the drive you want to 
> see, it displays general info on that drive.  There is also a tab to 
> look at the partitions on that drive.  The first screen lists the name 
> of the drive (/dev/hda for example).  The second screen shows a list of 
> partitions on that drive.  If you click on a partition it should give 
> you the path to that partition.  You can also enable/disable partitions 
> on that screen.
> Good Luck!
> ~Lorin
> 




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