On August 31, 2009, Maura Monville wrote:
I have a dual-boot desktop ( Windows & SuSE). The hard disk was partitioned (not by me) as shown in the attached picture. A partition (/dev/sda1) contains Windows O.S. and space ghas been allocated for typical Windows applications. Another partition (I think it is /dev/sda2) has been created for Linux O.S. and its applications. Some space should have been allocated to /swap. Maybe it is the 10GB one ??? Then there are another 2 partitions that should have been created ( (ntfs-3g 42.5 GB and 4.5 GB) according to my expressed desire) to share data between SuSE and Windows.
However from SuSE I cannot see such "utility" partitions. I think because they are not mounted by default ... ???
From my poor knowledge of OS commands I can see the following:
mauede@bordighera:~> cat /etc/fstab this is your swap /dev/disk/by-id/ata-Maxtor_6Y080M0_Y21GWDCC-part3 swap swap defaults 0 0 this is the / partition /dev/disk/by-id/ata-Maxtor_6Y080M0_Y21GWDCC-part2 / ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 1 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0 debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0 usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
this looks like the windoes partition
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Maxtor_6Y080M0_Y21GWDCC-part1 /windows/C ntfs-3g users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_US.UTF
running sudo /sbin/fdisk -l will show you all the partitions that have been created mount - will show what is mounted fstab - shows what is mounted automatically -- Collector of vintage computers http://www.ncf.ca/~ba600 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org