Partition Editor

Johnneylee Rollins johnneylee.rollins at gmail.com
Tue Jan 12 20:55:09 UTC 2010


On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Conny Enstrom wrote:
>> Karl F. Larsen skrev:
>>>      Here on my 9.04 I needed a way to just see what I have and
>>> what /dev/sda? it is. So I sudo apt-get install
>>> partition-editor and now it's here anytime I need it.
>>>
>>>      I am backing up my Home directory right now using dd. my
>>> backup HD is at /dev/sdg1 which is hard to discover any other way.
>>>
>>> 73 Karl
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Why not use the command fdisk -l  to see the drives??
>
>        Yes sudo fdisk -l works fine. How do you change a partition
> with fdisk? And the sudo is critical.

I prefer to use cfdisk, just run it with sudo. Good for playing with partitions.

~SpaceGhost




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