Subj : Re: Hard Drive configuration
To   : Bogomips
From : fusion
Date : Tue May 13 2025 10:17:00

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 
ÀÄsda1        8:1    0   3.6T  0 part /mnt/storage-a
sdb           8:16   0   3.6T  0 disk 
ÀÄsdb1        8:17   0   3.6T  0 part /mnt/storage-b
sdc           8:32   0 931.5G  0 disk 
ÀÄsdc1        8:33   0 931.5G  0 part /home
sdd           8:48   0 238.5G  0 disk 
ÃÄsdd1        8:49   0   650M  0 part /boot/efi
ÃÄsdd2        8:50   0     8G  0 part [SWAP]
ÀÄsdd3        8:51   0 229.8G  0 part /
sde           8:64   0 232.9G  0 disk 
ÀÄsde1        8:65   0 232.9G  0 part /mnt/storage-d
sdf           8:80   0 232.9G  0 disk 
ÀÄsdf1        8:81   0 232.9G  0 part /mnt/storage-c
nvme0n1     259:0    0 232.9G  0 disk 
ÃÄnvme0n1p1 259:1    0   499M  0 part 
ÃÄnvme0n1p2 259:2    0    99M  0 part 
ÃÄnvme0n1p3 259:3    0    16M  0 part 
ÃÄnvme0n1p4 259:4    0 231.6G  0 part /mnt/ntfs-c
ÀÄnvme0n1p5 259:5    0   666M  0 part 
nvme1n1     259:6    0 465.8G  0 disk 
ÃÄnvme1n1p1 259:7    0    16M  0 part 
ÀÄnvme1n1p2 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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