Installation?

[Tom H]

On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Pongo A. Pan <pongo_pan at charter.net> wrote:
>
> Perhaps the OP should also try "sudo parted --list" in a terminal.  I
> forget if parted is installed by default in 10.10.  It seems to be in
> natty.
>
>  pongo at seneca:~$ sudo parted --list
>  [sudo] password for pongo:
>  Model: ATA ST31000333AS (scsi)
>  Disk /dev/sda: 1000GB
>  Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
>  Partition Table: msdos
>
>  Number  Start   End     Size    Type      File system     Flags
>  1      32.3kB  419MB   419MB   primary   ext2            boot
>  2      419MB   10.9GB  10.5GB  primary   linux-swap(v1)
>  3      10.9GB  1000GB  989GB   extended
>  5      10.9GB  110GB   98.9GB  logical   ext4
>  6      110GB   895GB   785GB   logical   ext4
>  7      895GB   992GB   96.4GB  logical   ext4
>  8      992GB   1000GB  8613MB  logical   fat32
>
> Pretty unambiguous.  Don't look at me! LL's partition scheme.

If parted isn't installed, "fdisk -l" will give the same information.

Neither'll tell you whether swap's active though.

(What's LL? Lucid?!)