Table of Contents
Advertisement
Instead of using fdisk, use parted.
The parted utility is included on the Linux (SUSE LINUX and Red Hat) base
system. As shown in Example 4-6, the parted output does not show the same
information in the partition table, but recognizes the real partitions on the system.
The parted utility can identify every partition on the partition table.
Example 4-6 GNU parted output (some lines removed)
[root@x455 root]# parted
GNU Parted 1.6.3
...
Using /dev/sda
(parted) print
Disk geometry for /dev/sda: 0.000-17278.000 megabytes
Disk label type: gpt
Minor
Start
End
1
0.031
172.573 fat16
2
172.573
298.081
3
298.081 10299.484 ntfs
4
10299.485 10353.750 fat32
5
10353.750 11381.281 linux-swap
6
11381.281 17271.938 reiserfs
(parted) select /dev/sdb
Using /dev/sdb
(parted) print
Disk geometry for /dev/sdb: 0.000-17278.000 megabytes
Disk label type: gpt
Minor
Start
End
1
0.031
125.507
2
125.508
3125.507 ntfs
3
3125.508
3225.507 fat16
4
3225.508
5217.944 linux-swap
5
5217.944 17277.983 ext3
(parted) select /dev/sdc
Using /dev/sdc
(parted) print
Disk geometry for /dev/sdc: 0.000-250.000 megabytes
Disk label type: msdos
Minor
Start
End
1
0.016
249.750 primary
Filesystem Name
EFI system partition boot
Microsoft reserved partition
Basic data partition
Filesystem Name
Microsoft reserved partition
Basic data partition
Type
Filesystem Flags
fat16
Chapter 4. Installation
Flags
boot
Flags
boot
boot
167
Advertisement
Table of Contents
