Doing a clean install of 9.10

[Ric Moore]

On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 20:45 +0200, Nigel Ridley wrote:
> pkaplan1 at comcast.net wrote:
> > Try mount command in a terminal. 
> > One of the lines should be /dev/sdXY on /home, where X is a letter depending on whether it is the first, second, etc hard drive and Y is a number indicating the partition number. That will be your home partition. You should also see /dev/sdXY on / which will be the root partition. 
> > 
> 
> Thanks for that. Is it possible to get partition sizes from the cmd line?
> I remember from my last clean install that the text installer/partitioner (alternate CD) doesn't 
> give much clue as to which partitions are /root /home except that it does give partition sizes. I 
> could then match known sizes against what the installer/partitioner is offering.

Try df or df -h (human) to see the result in megabytes. Ric



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