Access to Linux (ext3) & Windows (FAT32) partitions (from Ubuntu 9.04)

[Fred Roller]

On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 09:25 -0700, NoOp wrote:
> On 08/10/2009 05:37 AM, Fred Roller wrote:
> > On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 17:20 +0530, Jay Mistry wrote:
> >> jaymist at LinuxUbuntu:~$ fdisk -l
> > 
> > Your command is wrong, try to sudo:
> > 
> > sudo fdisk -l
> > 
> > just running fdisk as user will return nil results.
> 
> WFM:
> $ fdisk -l
> 
> Disk /dev/sda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x8e808e80
> 
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1   *           1        4678    37576003+  83  Linux
> /dev/sda2            4679        4865     1502077+   5  Extended
> /dev/sda5            4679        4865     1502046   82  Linux swap / Solaris
> 
> Disk /dev/sdb: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x8d638d63
> 
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sdb1   *           1        4604    36981598+   7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/sdb2            4605        4865     2096482+   7  HPFS/NTFS
> 
> 
> 
froller at metis:~$ fdisk -l
froller at metis:~$ 
froller at metis:~$ sudo fdisk -l
[sudo] password for froller: 

Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00093cb4

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1        2432    19535008+  83  Linux
/dev/sda2            2433        3040     4883760   83  Linux
/dev/sda3            3041        4013     7815622+  82  Linux swap /
Solaris
/dev/sda4            4014       60801   456149610   83  Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0006365c

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1               1       60801   488384001   83  Linux
froller at metis:~$ 

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Interesting anomaly...
 
froller at metis:~$ uname -a
Linux metis 2.6.28-14-generic #47-Ubuntu SMP Sat Jul 25 01:19:55 UTC
2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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Fred R.
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