linux-8ium:/home/s.nelson64 # fdisk -1
fdisk: invalid option -- 1
Usage: fdisk [-b SSZ] [-u] DISK Change partition table
fdisk -l [-b SSZ] [-u] DISK List partition table(s)
fdisk -s PARTITION Give partition size(s) in blocks
fdisk -v Give fdisk version
Here DISK is something like /dev/hdb or /dev/sda
and PARTITION is something like /dev/hda7
-u: give Start and End in sector (instead of cylinder) units
-b 2048: (for certain MO disks) use 2048-byte sectors
linux-8ium:/home/s.nelson64 # fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 98.5 GB, 98522403840 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 11978 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xe686f016
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 6 48163+ de Dell Utility
/dev/sda2 * 7 8517 68364607+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 8518 11371 22924755 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda4 11372 11977 4867695 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda5 8518 8648 1052226 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 8649 11371 21872466 83 Linux
linux-8ium:/home/s.nelson64 #
the files I will want to take off my windows partition are on /dev/sada2