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01-11-2024, 09:43 AM
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#16
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LQ Guru
Registered: Mar 2016
Location: Harrow, UK
Distribution: LFS, AntiX, Slackware
Posts: 8,133
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Quote:
Originally Posted by IsaacKuo
If you want to know which partitions are mounted, you can use "more /etc/mtab"
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Or you can just use df. That only registers mounted partitions.
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01-11-2024, 11:12 AM
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#17
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Apr 2016
Posts: 13
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Hi, as it shows. You have a 1TB Seagate HD wich I think is the one that came with the PC. Another 1TB Toshiba and a 512Gb Samsung wich seems to be from the Dell PC. The partition you ask for is in the samsung disk. I believe this was the original HD that came with the Dell PC with windows installed and that small partition was used as recovery by windows. I remember some of this were hard to remove with the linux tools back then so it was easier to just leave it there.
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1 members found this post helpful.
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01-11-2024, 12:33 PM
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#18
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LQ Guru
Registered: Aug 2016
Location: SE USA
Distribution: openSUSE 24/7; Debian, Knoppix, Mageia, Fedora, OS/2, others
Posts: 6,341
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Quote:
Originally Posted by grumpyskeptic
I typed tree in the terminal but got -
Code:
Command 'tree' not found, but can be installed with:
sudo apt install tree
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Do it again after doing:
Code:
sudo apt install tree
as the command suggested. You would not need to type sudo if you are logged in as root.
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01-19-2024, 03:54 AM
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#19
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Member
Registered: Apr 2016
Posts: 524
Original Poster
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Sorry I am still not clear - is the mystery HDD merely a partition on another HDD, or is it some hardware please? The man who sold me the computer, which is a mixture of new and second-hand components, said something about a solid state drive which I did not pay any attention to at the time. He may have plugged a small old SSD into the motherboard, or it might be built-in.
Thanks.
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01-19-2024, 06:39 AM
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#20
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Member
Registered: Jan 2022
Location: Hanover, Germany
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 305
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Quote:
Originally Posted by grumpyskeptic
He may have plugged a small old SSD into the motherboard, or it might be built-in.
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Post output of dmesg. This will show all drives detected by Linux kernel.
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01-19-2024, 07:04 AM
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#21
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Moderator
Registered: Aug 2002
Posts: 26,517
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The output of the lsblk command will show UUID for each partition. See which one if any matches your mysterious drive.
Post the output of the command:
lsblk -f
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01-19-2024, 07:37 AM
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#22
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Senior Member
Registered: Apr 2004
Location: Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
Distribution: Debian Stable
Posts: 2,546
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Quote:
Originally Posted by grumpyskeptic
Sorry I am still not clear - is the mystery HDD merely a partition on another HDD, or is it some hardware please? The man who sold me the computer, which is a mixture of new and second-hand components, said something about a solid state drive which I did not pay any attention to at the time. He may have plugged a small old SSD into the motherboard, or it might be built-in.
Thanks.
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There are two partitions of the size of your mystery partition (not a mystery "HDD", even if Microsoft Windows show partitions as "drives"). Both of these are partitions within a drive with multiple partitions.
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01-19-2024, 11:59 AM
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#23
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Senior Member
Registered: Jan 2003
Location: Illinois (SW Chicago 'burbs)
Distribution: openSUSE, Raspbian, Slackware. Previous: MacOS, Red Hat, Coherent, Consensys SVR4.2, Tru64, Solaris
Posts: 2,849
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Quote:
Originally Posted by grumpyskeptic
I typed tree in the terminal but got -
Code:
Command 'tree' not found, but can be installed with:
sudo apt install tree
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If you don't want to install 'tree' [1], you could also list the contents of the EFI partition by issuing:
Code:
$ find <mount-point-of-the-EFI-partition>
where that mount point is what you obtained using the file manager. You won't get the snazzy tree format but it'll list the contents of the mount point just the same.
[1] -- The 'find' command will be installed on your system already.
Hope this helps...
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01-19-2024, 12:09 PM
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#24
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Senior Member
Registered: Jan 2003
Location: Illinois (SW Chicago 'burbs)
Distribution: openSUSE, Raspbian, Slackware. Previous: MacOS, Red Hat, Coherent, Consensys SVR4.2, Tru64, Solaris
Posts: 2,849
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Quote:
Originally Posted by grumpyskeptic
Sorry I am still not clear - is the mystery HDD merely a partition on another HDD, or is it some hardware please?
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Try running:
If that tool is installed, you should get the path to it (should be /usr/bin/inxi). If it's found, issue:
to list the storage components. The device name is in column two ("Storage:") -- look for the device description on the line corresponding to your mystery disk.
Hope this helps...
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01-26-2024, 07:52 AM
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#25
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Member
Registered: Apr 2016
Posts: 524
Original Poster
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I now see that the size and format of the mystery HDD matches a partition on the physical HDD, so its probably that.
Thanks.
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