If I were given only the DISKPART listing, I’m not sure I could deduce muchĪbout the fdisk listing, and this is an easy case where the partitions are in With both sets of data available, it is easy to see the correspondence however, On Windows, DISKPART shows the following for Disk 0 (Sorry for the transcriptionīy hand, but capturing Windows command-line text is not something I remember how I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes It is probably that bad however, here is the comparison for my dull-boot systemĭisk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytesĢ55 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders, total 312581808 sectors There is no volume associated with this partition. Partition 2 is now the selected partition. You will now see how the information differs if a partition from my Linux hard drive is selected. The disk drive selected above (disk 0) is my Windows hard drive. * Volume 5 C WIN64 NTFS Partition 64 GB Healthy System

Volume # Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info Once, selected, more information can be obtained - how much depends on whether it’s a recognised Windows format: DISKPART> detail partition Partition 1 is now the selected partition. To obtain more information about a specific partition, it must first be selected: DISKPART> select partition=1 To list the partitions of the selected drive, the size, and locations, type `list partitions’: DISKPART> list partition To select a specific disk drive type `select disk=n’, where n is the Disk number. Then to list the available disk drives type `list disk’: DISKPART> list disk To begin a diskpart session, type diskpart on the console.

Note that the console text can be copied from the menu obtained by right-clicking the title bar -> Edit -> Select All.

The utility is started within the console (which can be obtained within Windows 7 by searching' for cmd’). Knowledge of the utility could potentially be useful for those advising Linux newcomers desiring a Windows/openSUSE dualboot who are having difficulties with fdisk -l. I have been requested (by dvhenry) to provide some examples of using DISKPART to show partition information within Windows.

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