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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:

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