Re: FDisk Help
Steve Matzura <sm@noisynotes.com> wrote:
> I have three physical drives in my system--/dev/sda is presumably my
> boot drive, which shows up as six devices in /dev:
> /dev/sda1,2,5,6,7,8. Additionally, there's a CD-ROM drive, and a 250GB
> standard rotating disk. My boot partition is located on a 120GB SSD,
> which I presume is /dev/sda, is divided as follows according to df:
> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda1 8518920 879012 7184128 11% /
> /dev/sda7 368615 2058 343005 1% /tmp
> /dev/sda5 2817056 178752 2475488 7% /var
> /dev/sda8 89493696 57076 84867532 1% /home
> What, then, are /dev/sda2 and /dev/sda6? I tried looking at them with
> FDisk and got the following:
> For /dev/sda2: Failed to read extended partition table
> (offset=5858805): Invalid argument
> For /dev/sda6: device contains a valid 'swap' signature, it's strongly
> recommended to wipe the device by command wipefs(8) if this setup is
> unexpected to avoid possible collisions.
/dev/sda5 to /dev/sda8 are logical partitions inside an extended
partition. The extended partition is /dev/sda2.
Hint: try the tool "lsblk" to see where which filesystem resides.
Grüße
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