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HighD

Member

From: Costa Rica

Registered: 2007-05-16

Posts: 31

Which sda?

Hey, first post here! Hello everybody! I'm not a complete newbie, I've  used and tinkered some linux distros before Arch, the latest and greatest being Ubuntu. I just couldn't resist Arch, the principals under which it is developed are amazing. I also want a higher difficulty level. Test my skills.

Ok so here's the deal, I've partitioned my hd, I have and extended partition containing 2 logical partitions (for swap and /). I have 3 other primary partitions, which contain the windows os, and the two others are documents. I don't want to screw up my system by mounting swap or / on other partition that isn't the extendend one and formatting the wrong drive. Is there any way I can differenciate the partitions besides just "sda1", "sda2", "sda3"...?

Here's how my hd looks like now and where I want to install root and swap partitions.

Thanks in advance for your answers

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T-Dawg

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From: Charlotte, NC

Registered: 2005-01-29

Posts: 2,736

Re: Which sda?

It looks like your / partition is sda5 and swap sda6. You can run cfdisk /dev/sda to see exactly which ones they are. Once you determine which is which you can format using labels (-L) and mount each by calling on the labels in your fstab. LABEL="SWAP", LABEL="ROOT", etc. etc.