viewing contents of sda

kalinoob07 · 09-28-2017, 09:54 AM

I am a noob so please dont judge.

I want to view and delete some files from sda4 , one of the 13 partitions on my system (inside "other locations").

please tell me how i can do it?

TB0ne · 09-28-2017, 10:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kalinoob07

I am a noob so please dont judge.

I want to view and delete some files from sda4 , one of the 13 partitions on my system (inside "other locations").

please tell me how i can do it?

You were told how to do it in your other thread, and pointed to many man pages for the commands you're looking for.

Keruskerfuerst · 09-28-2017, 10:00 AM

You can view the content of a partition with ls -l.
Delete some files with rm (-r).

sundialsvcs · 09-29-2017, 12:54 PM

/dev/sdaX is a physical concept: a reference to a particular hardware device and to a particular partition on that device.

In order to use, and manipulate, the data in that physical place, you must employ a file system. Specifically, you must mount that physical resource. This action gives the content of the physical resource a particular "location" in the file-system, and makes these contents available to you subject to the security restrictions imposed by that file-system.

!!! · 09-29-2017, 02:07 PM

Look into (research/study) the concepts of: filesystem, mount, &esp inode. Wikipedia is best here.
Also debugfs command (unix cmd

), to learn about where pieces of files get stored on disk.
(Compare to M$Win fat32/ntfs). "How Linux Works" is a good beginner-internals book (stuff for you to know first!!!)

Enjoy

p.s. https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...4/#post5764244

snowday · 09-29-2017, 02:35 PM

Boot an Ubuntu live DVD or live USB. Launch the File Manager. Use the File Manager to browse to the partition and view/delete your files. Exactly the same as File Explorer in Windows.

https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/A...irect=Nautilus

sundialsvcs · 10-02-2017, 06:27 PM

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Originally Posted by snowpine

Boot an Ubuntu live DVD or live USB. Launch the File Manager. Use the File Manager to browse to the partition and view/delete your files. Exactly the same as File Explorer in Windows.

https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/A...irect=Nautilus

But be aware that, if a File Manager can do this, it is being "very smart and clever" to, in effect, hide the details from you. Direct access to the content of a partition must occur through a filesystem mount, which of course implements the "files and directories" that you perceive to be there.