Listing Disks and Partitions
Using fdisk with the -l option will output information on any hard drives connected to the system and information on their partitions (for example, the type of partition).
fdisk -l Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 638 5124703+ b Win95 FAT32 /dev/hda2 639 3826 25607610 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda3 3827 3883 457852+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hda4 3884 4865 7887915 c Win95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/hda5 639 1913 10241406 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda6 1914 1926 104391 83 Linux /dev/hda7 1927 3826 15261718+ 83 Linux