Names of Windows partitions

[David Curtis]

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Jeremy Huntwork wrote:
> On Jun 17, 2008, at 2:12 PM, Graham Watkins wrote:
>> sudo cat /etc/fstab from the command line will give the partition
>> information. If you are using Ubuntu you'll probably find that they're
>> likely to begin with sd..
> 
> This will only work if Ubuntu has automatically discovered the Windows  
> partition and created an entry for it, since /etc/fstab is a list of  
> partitions to mount at startup. By the sounds of it, this didn't  
> happen since Rick is looking to auto mount the partition at startup.
> 
> Also, the fact that he's using Ubuntu has nothing to do with whether  
> the drive will begin with 'sd' or 'hd'. 'hd' is for ATA drives  
> (usually IDE), while 'sd' is for SCSI disks, SATA drives and USB  
> storage disks.
> 

Actually since 7.10 I believe all drives including IDE are all called sdxx.

A 'dmesg|grep hd' for Ubuntu 7.04 will tell you what your drives are.
A 'dmesg|grep sd' for Ubuntu 7.10 and up. (And 7.04 and lower if your
drives are SCSI.) Just try them both, no harm.


Dave


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