Subj : Re: Hard Drive configuration
To   : Bogomips
From : fusion
Date : Tue May 13 2025 10:17 am

On 12 May 2025, Bogomips said the following...

Bo> In and attempt to have a dual boot laptop
Bo>
Bo> Ive been trying to get get the slackware install to recognize the D:
Bo> drive on install.

use lsblk...

(sorry for the dump. better to have a huge example)

$ lsblk

NAME        MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
sda           8:0    0   3.6T  0 disk
��sda1        8:1    0   3.6T  0 part /mnt/storage-a
sdb           8:16   0   3.6T  0 disk
��sdb1        8:17   0   3.6T  0 part /mnt/storage-b
sdc           8:32   0 931.5G  0 disk
��sdc1        8:33   0 931.5G  0 part /home
sdd           8:48   0 238.5G  0 disk
��sdd1        8:49   0   650M  0 part /boot/efi
��sdd2        8:50   0     8G  0 part [SWAP]
��sdd3        8:51   0 229.8G  0 part /
sde           8:64   0 232.9G  0 disk
��sde1        8:65   0 232.9G  0 part /mnt/storage-d
sdf           8:80   0 232.9G  0 disk
��sdf1        8:81   0 232.9G  0 part /mnt/storage-c
nvme0n1     259:0    0 232.9G  0 disk
��nvme0n1p1 259:1    0   499M  0 part
��nvme0n1p2 259:2    0    99M  0 part
��nvme0n1p3 259:3    0    16M  0 part
��nvme0n1p4 259:4    0 231.6G  0 part /mnt/ntfs-c
��nvme0n1p5 259:5    0   666M  0 part
nvme1n1     259:6    0 465.8G  0 disk
��nvme1n1p1 259:7    0    16M  0 part
��nvme1n1p2 259:8    0 465.7G  0 part /mnt/ntfs-d

you're going to want to be VERY CAREFUL you fully understand which of these drives is which. for example, note that linux can see and i have mounted my two nvme ntfs drives for C: and D: on the windows side. you can see all the "junk" partitions on nvme0n1 that i've just left, as well as the primary partition. you can see sdd has my main linux partitions, including an EFI one for booting, a swap drive and the main linux partition (sdd3) and the separate drive for /home (sdc1)

so now you kind of have an idea what sort of things you're looking for, imagine you have a "storage-d" drive like me that you want to nuke for linux, which is under "sde"

$ cfdisk /dev/sde

i'm kind of suspecting cfdisk is just loading the first drive it sees, and cfdisk is *not* an all-the-drives-at-one-time maintenance tool, so you're thinking it isn't finding your drive. you do your work on one and then
save/close it out and then maybe do the next.

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