On Friday 08 July 2011 10:30:49 am Mahesh T Pai wrote: > "nikhil jain" <nik.j...@gmail.com> writes: > > How can I know the /dev/sdaX address of the / partition of debian? > > You were asked by the installer to to select the partitions and their > mountpoint(s) a few minutes before you were asked about installing > Grub.
Although I assume there is some sort of default there that doesn't require him to enter anything. (?) Anyway, I was just going to point out (somewhat similarly) that at some point--oh, never mind--I always manually partition my disk before doing an install, then I know the /dev/sdaN number, as: * the third letter (a in sda) represents the first disk installed in the system--that is, in old IDE terms, the master disk on the primary disk controller, then b is the second disk on the primary disk controller * the number (N) in sdaN sort of represents the partitions in the order created, except for a few exceptions--if you create an extended partition, then sda4 "holds" the extended partition. And, if you don't create 3 primary partitions, I think some numbers might get skipped--otherwise, 1 is the first primary partition, 2 is the second, ..., 4 is the extended, 5 is the first (usable) extended partition, ... Randy Kramer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201107081259.51166.rhkra...@gmail.com
