How to see Hard drive partitions.. and system hardware?

[wrender]

I am running kubuntu 8.10 with KDE 4.1.3 on my new system76 laptop....... Loving it!

However I have no idea how to see what hardware/devices or how to see how the hard drive is partitioned on the machine. Am I missing something obvious? Or do I have to install something to give me that functionality?

[aged hippy]

Re: How to see Hard drive partitions.. and system hardware?

I'm not sure if it's installed by default, but if you install Gparted with either Adept or Synaptic, it will appear as Partition Editor on the System menu.

[wrender]

Re: How to see Hard drive partitions.. and system hardware?

That is one down.... (I guess there is no K solution to partitions)


Now I just have to figure out how to see the devices/hardware on the laptop..

[aged hippy]

Re: How to see Hard drive partitions.. and system hardware?

Having just posted that...
System Settings ->Advanced ->Grub Editor will also do it.


Where's the red-faced smilie...

[dibl]

Re: How to see Hard drive partitions.. and system hardware?

There are a number of ways (isn't that like Linux?).

Install lshw and dmidecode (if it isn't already) and run them.

Check out Kinfocenter.

What else?

[Nate]

Re: How to see Hard drive partitions.. and system hardware?

There is also qtparted, which might fit in better visually with kubuntu than gparted.
You can see your partition info from the command line by typing "fdisk -l" (lower case L).

[KeithZG]

Re: How to see Hard drive partitions.. and system hardware?

There is also qtparted, which might fit in better visually with kubuntu than gparted.
You can see your partition info from the command line by typing "fdisk -l" (lower case L).

I was about to mention QTParted, you beat me to it Actually in some ways I like it better than GParted (there's even one or two things that it can do that GParted can't), but it's a bit antique these days AFAIK and it seems a tad less stable than GParted, though neither is exactly problematic if unstable since they're just the GUIs, PartEd itself is a rock.

In line with fdisk and lshw, for seeing hardware there's also lspci and lsusb, both of which can be run with the -v switch for more info. For lshw there's lshw-gtk for a GUI, obviously not KDE4 native but for systems not like my AMD64 system I'd assume GTK stuff skins properly by now so at least it shouldn't look too ugly or anything.