[ImNeat]

For example - the settup on my SATA drive is this:
sda1 - Windows XP Pro
sda2 - Linspire five-0
sda3 - PC-BSD

When you're formatting with qtparted, or whatever, you'll see partitions labeled like this.

[hajime]

Originally Posted by devils_casper

you are right ... partitions are listed under /dev. in case of pata disk, first partition is hda1 and in SATA disk, its sda1.



casper

Hello to all.
I am sorry, I said I would tell you how it went, but didn't say anything... The thing is that I
have been so busy with things at university, that I haven't even touched the PC, practically.
I am ready to do it, finally, but I have a question: I am not sure what the
names of current Linux partitions are "/dev, /hda..." so, if I installed Windows again, and then
reinstall lilo naming Linux partitions slightly differently to the current names...Would I lose
all the data I have now?

Thanks mates!!

[devils casper]

in terminal, execute 'fdisk -l' command and note down the names of partitions.
if you re-installs windows in same partition where its already installed, your data will be safe.

well ! post the output of 'fdisk -l' command so that we could suggest you properly.






casper

[hajime]

What happens is incredible -in the bad meaning.
The command doesn't work for me (it says "command not found"), but curiously, there is
a manual page available...

Perhaps is there another way of learning about partitions?

[devils casper]

you must be 'root' to execute this command.

su -
fdisk -l

casper

[hajime]

Hi man,
it might seem incredible, but it doesn't work even like that...
Any ideas?

[devils casper]

thats weird... log in as root and execute

/sbin/fdisk -l   <--- its small 'L'

casper

[hajime]

Cool mate, you are awesome.
Now, if you could recommend me what to do with these partitions after
seeing them, I will be so happy:

[root@localhost hajime]# /sbin/fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 1147 9213246 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 1148 2167 8193150 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 2168 14593 99811845 8e Linux LVM

Disk /dev/dm-0: 1040 MB, 1040187392 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 126 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table

[devils casper]

there isn't any Free Space in your Hard Disk.
Last Partition is LVM and its very tough to resize LVM. post the output of 'df -h' command.




casper

[hajime]

Sure mate. Here is is:

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