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06-11-2012, 09:33 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jun 2012
Location: Tennessee, United States
Distribution: Ubuntu
Posts: 9
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How do you use the terminal to list different drives?
What is the terminal command to list drives and partitiions in the terminal?
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06-11-2012, 09:45 PM
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LQ Veteran
Registered: Aug 2003
Location: Australia
Distribution: Lots ...
Posts: 21,380
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Sounds suspiciously like homework.
What are to trying to achieve, and what have you tried ?.
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06-11-2012, 09:50 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jun 2012
Location: Tennessee, United States
Distribution: Ubuntu
Posts: 9
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Originally Posted by syg00
Sounds suspiciously like homework.
What are to trying to achieve, and what have you tried ?.
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Well I was trying just trying to figure a way to switch drives using the terminal. I really prefer terminal interface to GUI. I actually a command for it the other day, but now, for the life of me, I cannot remember what command it was. |
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06-11-2012, 09:59 PM
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Registered: Aug 2003
Location: Australia
Distribution: Lots ...
Posts: 21,380
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"parted -l" (or "fdisk -l") maybe. For Ubuntu you'll need to use "sudo".
"df" will show what is mounted - may or may not be what you're looking for. I prefer "df -hT" (see "man df" for details).
"ls" on (almost) anything listed will show lower levels - which can may be able to "cd" into. See the relevant manpages.
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06-11-2012, 10:02 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jun 2012
Location: Tennessee, United States
Distribution: Ubuntu
Posts: 9
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Originally Posted by syg00
"parted -l" (or "fdisk -l") maybe. For Ubuntu you'll need to use "sudo".
"df" will show what is mounted - may or may not be what you're looking for. I prefer "df -hT" (see "man df" for details).
"ls" on (almost) anything listed will show lower levels - which can may be able to "cd" into. See the relevant manpages.
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Thank you, 'df' was the command I was looking for! |
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06-11-2012, 10:11 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Jan 2006
Location: Virginia, USA
Distribution: Slackware, Ubuntu MATE, Mageia, and whatever VMs I happen to be playing with
Posts: 19,889
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I like cat /etc/mtab to show mounted drives, especially when I'm finetuning /etc/fstab.
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