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:
- Hit Alt+F2 on you keyboard.
- In the “Run Command” dialog, type: “konsole” and hit the [enter] key.
- 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:
- Hit Alt+F2 on you keyboard.
- In the “Run Command” dialog, type: “konsole” and hit the [enter] key.
- 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:
- Hit Alt+F2 on you keyboard.
- In the “Run Command” dialog, type: “konsole” and hit the [enter] key.
- 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.