Comments on: 4 Ways to View Disks and Partitions in Linux

By: Ravi Saive

Ravi Saive — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 03:37:18 +0000

In reply to knx. @Knox, You can use the lsblk command to view drives and partitions in the format (hdx,xx) in terminal.

lsblk -o NAME,MODEL,SIZE,FSTYPE,UUID

By: knx

knx — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 12:35:52 +0000

How can I view drives and partitions in the format (hdx,xx) in the Linux terminal? I prefer not to use the GRUB command line.

By: Ravi Saive

Ravi Saive — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 03:54:20 +0000

In reply to Luke. @Luke, Yes, Nautilus is the only way to view disks graphically. You can use Baobab (also known as Disk Usage Analyzer), which provides a visual representation of disk usage. Baobab is commonly found in Linux distributions that use GNOME as their desktop environment.

$ sudo apt-get install baobab

By: Luke

Luke — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 14:24:38 +0000

In reply to Ravi Saive.

Ravi,

Thanks for the reply. In my case, there are no “Devices” in my native Ubuntu file manager. The latest version is called “Files” v. 42.6, and is a Gnome project.

I looked in Preferences for any mention of Devices but, no. I also have the Nemo file manager and it’s the same. No listing of hard drives by symbol or icon.

Since Linux does not identify volumes by a drive letter (as in Windows), I suspect there’s no way to view them as icons or folders.

By: Ravi Saive

Ravi Saive — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 03:27:44 +0000

In reply to Luke. @Luke, Yes, you use Nautilus to view a disk graphically in Linux. Open Nautilus, you will see a sidebar on the left-hand side displaying your system's file hierarchy. Look for the "Devices" section in the sidebar. Under the "Devices" section, you should see a list of available disks and partitions on your system. Click on the disk you want to view.