How to know which partition is which?
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Well I was just wondering what partition belongs to which. On my computer I have Windows 7 and two Ubuntu systems (it was an accident, which is why I need to know which partition is which). So how do I know which one is which??
PS here's the codes:
jp@jp-Satellite-L555D:~$ sudo update-grub
[sudo] password for jp:
Generating grub.cfg ...
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.11.0-12-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.11.0-12-generic
Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.bin
Found Windows 7 (loader) on /dev/sda1
Found Windows 7 (loader) on /dev/sda2
Found Windows Recovery Environment (loader) on /dev/sda3
Found Ubuntu 13.10 (13.10) on /dev/sda7
done
jp@jp-Satellite-L555D:~$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders, total 488397168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xf6f5148e
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 3074047 1536000 27 Hidden NTFS WinRE
/dev/sda2 3074048 213421022 105173487+ 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3 469676032 488396799 9360384 17 Hidden HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda4 213422078 469676031 128126977 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 300185600 463910911 81862656 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 463912960 469676031 2881536 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7 213422080 300185599 43381760 83 Linux
Partition table entries are not in disk order
Thanks to whoever can answer this. Another quick question, what is the extended partition??
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