[Novalug] partition table as text??

DonJr djr1952@hotpop.com
Wed Jan 30 11:14:37 EST 2008


On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 07:14 -0800, Beartooth wrote:
>  	Is there a command that will give something like the same 
> information as in the displays of gparted and qtparted, but in a 
> straight text terminal, where I can copy and paste it into email 
> or a newsreader?
> 
>  	The only way I have now, afaik, is to take a screenshot 
> and attach it; but many lists don't accept attachments.

The three that I can think of real fast are:
  sfdisk  - Partition table manipulator for Linux
   # sfdisk -l /dev/hda
or
  fdisk  - Partition table manipulator for Linux
   # fdisk -l /dev/hda
 or
  disktype - disk format detector see <http://disktype.sourceforge.net/>
   # disktype /dev/hda

Adjust the "hda" to whatever drive you are interested in.
  { must be ran as 'root' }

Note the output of fdisk or sdisk is in either cylinders or sectors.

"disktype" is a little more verbose and tries to give a more HUMAN
readable format of output.

--  
  DonJr





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