Archive for the tag 'confusion'

SBDavid
Jun 2nd, 2010

Mounting confusion /proc comes to the rescue

Mounting confusion /proc comes to the rescue

If you are losing track of what’s mounted, and in what state? No problem, here comes /proc to the rescue:

cat /proc/mounts

This displays all mounted filesystems, the filesystem types, read/write status, and other attributes. How many hard drives are on the system? One of these will tell you and also, SCSI drives are sd, IDE are hd.

fdisk -l

or

dmesg | grep hd

or

dmesg | grep sd