basic fdisk question...

[Stephen Kuhn]

On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 08:55, bruce wrote:
> ok.. a basic question that i can't find the right answer for...
> 
> how can i find out what my hard drive on my system is called...???
> 
> is fdisk the right function to use.. what would the attributes be...???
> 
> thanks
> 
> bruce
bedouglas at earthlink.net

If running "mount" doesn't tell you, then:

fdisk -l /dev/hda
fdisk -l /dev/hdb
(and so on)

...also, if you're only using one disk, it's /dev/hda
...so then you need to figure out what partition on hda you want to get
information for mate.

stephen kuhn - owner
==============================
illawarra computer services
a kuhn media australia company
http://kma.0catch.com
------------------------------------------------------------------
  * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer *
  We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents
------------------------------------------------------------------
Don't tell me what you dreamed last night for I've been reading Freud.