Looking At Partitions

Linux gives you several ways of looking at your partition set-up -- some using GUIs, some using the command line. Here are some approaches, using Mepis 8.

(As always, you can click on any of these images, or in Firefox, right-click and open in a new tab, for a larger view.)

GParted provides a graphical display as well as a table, among many other tools.



KDiskFree shows mountable partitions, and lets you mount them.



KwikDisk provides a snapshot of what KDiskFree gives you.

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If you prefer the command line, you can use fdisk -l (run as root).



df -h will show all mounted partitions.



The application parted also gives some nice output. parted wasn't available by default in Mepis 8, so I downloaded it from Synaptic. You'll want to check out man parted for proper usage. Run parted as root, then type print at the prompt. Type quit to get out of parted.