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i have made partitions using fdisk , in fedora as / , /boot , /home but when i used fdisk -l it doesn't display the names of partitions , how ...
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    finding partition names

    i have made partitions using fdisk , in fedora as

    / , /boot , /home

    but when i used fdisk -l

    it doesn't display the names of partitions , how can i made it work

    so that it displays

    /dev/sda1 /
    /dev/sda2 /boot
    /dev/sda3 /home

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    fdisk is the wrong tool

    You can get the label (if there is one) of the partition with
    e2label /dev/sda1

    And/or the mountpoint from /etc/fstab or mount
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