[SOLVED] What is this mysterious extra HDD?

hazel · 01-11-2024, 08:43 AM

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Originally Posted by IsaacKuo

If you want to know which partitions are mounted, you can use "more /etc/mtab"

Or you can just use df. That only registers mounted partitions.

arespi · 01-11-2024, 10:12 AM

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.

mrmazda · 01-11-2024, 11:33 AM

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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

Do it again after doing:

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sudo apt install tree

as the command suggested. You would not need to type sudo if you are logged in as root.

grumpyskeptic · 01-19-2024, 02:54 AM

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.

Arnulf · 01-19-2024, 05:39 AM

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Originally Posted by grumpyskeptic

He may have plugged a small old SSD into the motherboard, or it might be built-in.

Post output of dmesg. This will show all drives detected by Linux kernel.

michaelk · 01-19-2024, 06:04 AM

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

IsaacKuo · 01-19-2024, 06:37 AM

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.

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.

rnturn · 01-19-2024, 10:59 AM

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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

If you don't want to install 'tree' [1], you could also list the contents of the EFI partition by issuing:

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$ 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...

rnturn · 01-19-2024, 11:09 AM

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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?

Try running:

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$ which inxi

If that tool is installed, you should get the path to it (should be /usr/bin/inxi). If it's found, issue:

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$ inxi -D

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...

grumpyskeptic · 01-26-2024, 06:52 AM

I now see that the size and format of the mystery HDD matches a partition on the physical HDD, so its probably that.

Thanks.