what os is using which partitions?

[Jacob Mansfield]

I would mount all of the file systems and them run grub-update to make a new
grub settings/config file with all of your OSs in
Jacob Mansfield
Programmer



On 18 October 2010 19:47, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> On 10/17/2010 06:35 PM, Tapas Mishra wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 12:29 AM, ms...
> >> As far as I know there is no magic file of this kind -grub takes its
> >> information from its grub configuration file. Partitions are just
> >> partitions -system partitions will contain their own OS files, but they
> >> become "owned" by an OS just when the OS boots.
> ...
> >
> > http://sourceforge.net/projects/bootinfoscript/
> >
>
> Exactly. That will tell the OP what is installed where. Example:
>
> sda1:
> _________________________________________________________________________
>
>    File system:       ntfs
>    Boot sector type:  Windows XP
>    Boot sector info:  No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
>    Operating System:
>    Boot files/dirs:   /boot.ini /ntldr /NTDETECT.COM<http://ntdetect.com/>
>
> sda2:
> _________________________________________________________________________
>
>    File system:       ntfs
>    Boot sector type:  Windows XP
>    Boot sector info:  No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
>    Operating System:
>    Boot files/dirs:
>
> sdb1:
> _________________________________________________________________________
>
>    File system:       ext4
>    Boot sector type:  Grub 2
>    Boot sector info:  Grub 2 is installed in the boot sector of sdb1 and
>                       looks at sector 4785455 of the same hard drive for
>                       core.img, but core.img can not be found at this
>                       location.
>    Operating System:  Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS
>    Boot files/dirs:   /boot/grub/menu.lst /boot/grub/grub.cfg /etc/fstab
>                       /boot/grub/core.img
>
> sdb2:
> _________________________________________________________________________
>
>    File system:       Extended Partition
>    Boot sector type:  -
>    Boot sector info:
>
> sdb5:
> _________________________________________________________________________
>
>    File system:       swap
>    Boot sector type:  -
>    Boot sector info:
>
>
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