/dev/sda stand for? What does it mean? I have both Fedora and Ubuntu installed and if I explore them using Ext2explore from Windows, I see these names: /dev/sda6 /dev/sda9 Please explain to me what that means. I'm referring to the numbers and also the /dev/sda/ part.

As far as I know, when the kernel detects a new block device on a scsi-like (incl. sata) bus, in addition to adding a node in /dev for the whole disk itself, e.g. /dev/sda it will attempt to see if there's a partition table. If there are readable partitions, it will then create the partition nodes numbered depending on whether they're physical ...

2012年6月25日 · resize2fs /dev/sda 6000M You can use resize2fs to increase as well as decrease the size of partition. First,you have to decrease the size of /dev/sdb.Then,After increase the size of /dev/sda(Primary partition). I hope this will helps you.

2019年10月28日 · mount /dev/sda /mnt # then browse /mnt/ This exact command will make sense if there's a filesystem on the entire device. Usually there is a partition table; then filesystems reside in partitions referred to and mounted via /dev/sda1 , /dev/sda2 etc. Compare this question .

/dev/sda is the first hard drive (the primary master), /dev/sdb is the second etc. The numbers refer to partitions, so /dev/sda1 is the first partition of the first drive. It is likely that your external drive will not be /dev/sda, that is more likely to be the internal drive of your machine

2012年2月17日 · e2fsck -f -c -v /dev/sdX Where sdX is the mount point of your external HDD. The external HDD should be plugged in but not mounted , you can unmount the disk using the Disk Utility, and as Javier pointed out you can also use the Disk Utility to check the SMART status of the HDD if it is SMART capable/ enabled.

After booting from the CD, clicking Try Ubuntu, and then sudo fdisk /dev/sda I get fdisk: unable to seek on /dev/sda: Invalid argument. sudo fdisk /dev/sdb gives . Device contains neither a valid DOS partiion table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF disklabel. Building a new DOS disklabel with disk identifier 0x15228d1d.

2013年11月2日 · If you use mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda you'll create a filesystem over the whole disk. Better create a partition table with fdisk or parted or similar. /dev/sda may not be mounted for that. If you created the filesystem the partition programs might complain about it. To clear the data from the mkfs you can use dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1.

2011年11月12日 · The /dev/sda device is provided for support of legacy devices and installations that don't understand Xen native virtual disks. The /dev/xvda1 device is the native device and the one you should use. Share

2017年4月29日 · /dev/sda equivalent in Windows. Ask Question Asked 7 years, 10 months ago. Modified 7 years, 10 months ago.