fdisk: Display disk information in Kubuntu 10.10

There are many times when specific disk information is useful.

You may need to know specific information about a disk in order to partition, format, and mount a disk.

It is also quite common to look up disk information to find issues with a disk which may not be working correctly.

The easiest and most common way to do this is by using fdisk. fdisk is a Partition table manipulator for Linux.

Using fdisk to display disk information is very simple:

1. Hit Alt+F2 on you keyboard.
2. In the “Run Command” dialog, type: “konsole” and hit the [enter] key.
3. Then you will type the following code:
   sudo fdisk -l
   then press the [enter] key. This will list the partition tables and any included information.

More proof Konsole and Kubuntu are easy to use.

FYI: These steps should also work for Ubuntu.

For basic fdisk help:

1. Hit Alt+F2 on you keyboard.
2. In the “Run Command” dialog, type: “konsole” and hit the [enter] key.
3. Then you will type the following code:
   fdisk -h
   or…
   fdisk -help
   then press the [enter] key. This will display (print to the screen) the fdisk help file.

To view a fdisk manual:

1. Hit Alt+F2 on you keyboard.
2. In the “Run Command” dialog, type: “konsole” and hit the [enter] key.
3. Then you will type the following code:
   man fdisk
   then press the [enter] key. This will display the current fdisk manual.

Other command line, partition table manipulators, include:

• cfdisk – Curses based disk partition table manipulator for Linux.
• sfdisk – Partition table manipulator for Linux

Some additional information you may find helpful, can be read by going to Ubuntu Forums and reading the fdisk command ? article.