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.

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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.

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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.

All this providing more proof Konsole and Kubuntu are easy to use.

FYI: These steps should also work for Ubuntu.