Re: [ProLinux] I have confused my new computer

Author: lelandj

Posted: 2011-09-13 at 12:45:29

Go ahead and hook up all your drive, and then do a fdisk -l and post

it. The fdisk -l command will tell us how the new OS has assigned

labels to the additional drives.

Regards,

LelandJ

On 09/13/2011 11:32 AM, lelandj wrote:

> Can you post the output of the fdisk -l command?

>

> Regards,

>

> LelandJ

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> On 09/13/2011 11:18 AM, Ken Kixmoeller (ProLinux) wrote:

>> OK, I am playing. I disconnected everything but the boot drive.

>>

>> 1. All of the "mount point" folders are still in /media/ -- should I

>> delete (or rename) them? A GUI disk utility says that the mount point

>> of the remaining drive is ./ -- does that make sense? There is a SDA1

>> folder in there.

>>

>> 2. Ditto the device files (or whatever the heck they are) in /dev/ --

>> sda1 seems to be the boot drive partition and sda5 seems to be the

>> swap partition. Can/should I delete or rename the others?

>>

>> I feel like I am treading on dangerous ground.

>>

>> Ken

>>

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