Devices

[MichaelS-R]

I am a bit confused with the hard drives attached to my machine. Is there a way to list all attached devices?

Thanks,

Michael.

[bob]

To see the partitions on the drives as the computer sees them, sign into a terminal as full root (su -)...the space and minus sign are important... and then type "fdisk -l". You can also install/check 'hwbrowser' 'hwbrowser-gui'.

Or in Gnome, go to 'System > Administration > System Monitor' and your disk names/partitions and usage are listed.

Wayne

[bob]

Just a guess, but if you've recently moved over from Windows, you're seeing a different drive listing. Whereas Windows refers to the primary hard drive as "C", linux will refer to it as "hda", or "sda" in the case of Fedora (other distros use 'sda' for sata drives, but Fedora uses the reference for all of them). Well, then let's mess you up still further! If you're looking at partitioning information, then the computer's going to use numerical references and count up from zero! Sooooooo, "hda" becomes "hd0" and the first partition on it becomes "(hd0,0)" and the second partition becomes "(hd0,1)".

[MichaelS-R]

Thanks everyone. No bob - been using this for ages. Just total brain fade - forgot all about fdisk -l...
Just out of interest, System Monitor does not do the job as it only shows partitioned devices (may only be mounted ones).

Anyway, fdisk -l did the trick. Thanks again,

Michael.