I inadvertently created a lot of partitions in last install. /home and / were on separate partitions. When I look in gparted I see mount points for /home and others but not /. How do I find out what partition was used for / in Gutsy install.
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Re: How to find root partition
Open a console and type:
The listed device marked with the boot flag ( * ) is your root directory. Additionally, type:Code:sudo fdisk -l
The entry showing the mount point of / also tells you where your / partition is installed at.Code:cat /etc/fstab
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Re: How to find root partition
fdisk didn't work since I dual boot with win2000 which is on sda1 and marked with a * in fdisk. fstab shows sda3 is mounted at / but gparted does not show this mount point for sda3 and shows size as 19g with nothing used. Can you explain how gparted is working?Comment
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Re: How to find root partition
GParted always shows my root partition as "mount point" = /.
Konsole
sudo grub
grub> find /boot/grub/menu.lst
that'll tell where menu.lst is, which is probably your root partition (assuming no separate GRUB/boot partitions).
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Re: How to find root partition
Many thanks Qmike. Grub showed (hda,2) which is, I guess, sda3. Interestingly Partition Magic Gparted showed sda3 as about 4g, not empty as shown by gparted on Gutsy, but did not show mount point as /.Comment
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Re: How to find root partition
yes
(hd0,2) = sda3
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