I have an old version of Ubuntu on one partition and MInt12 on the other - both partitions being exactly 12.1 GIB in size. How do I tell which is which? I want to overwrite the Ubuntu partition with a new Mint 15 installation - if I only knew which one that is. I don't want to lose my current Mint 12 setup/partition that I have been using for the last 18 months.
My desktop is 3 years old so it uses MBR, and I have the Windows 7 O/S installed alongside the two linux O/S flavours.
Any ideas?
How do I know which partition Mint is installed on?
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SkinnySeal
How do I know which partition Mint is installed on?
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WharfRat
Re: How do I know which partition Mint is installed on?
SkinnySeal,
Open the terminal application and and enter that will give you a result something like
rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)
/dev/sdb12 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime,errors=continue,barrier=1,data=writeback)
Which tells me that the linux OS I'm using now resides on /dev/sdb12
Open the terminal application and and enter
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mount|grep -w '/'rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)
/dev/sdb12 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime,errors=continue,barrier=1,data=writeback)
Which tells me that the linux OS I'm using now resides on /dev/sdb12
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SkinnySeal
Re: How do I know which partition Mint is installed on?
Thanks, Wharfrat. Now I know!