I found a 6 GB IDE HDD in my basement. I want to plug it in and see what might be on it. The drive seems to be recognized in BIOS.
I can't find it in Ubuntu to view files, and Ubuntu is the only OS on that particular computer. I was wondering if Ubuntu has an equivalent to the Windows feature "My Computer", which lists all available drives/storage devices. Typically, My Computer shows C:, which can be opened to view all of your directories and files. At this point, it is very similar to Ubuntu's Home Folder.
How to view/select all available partitions of that drive or all available HDD's without formatting or tampering with the contents in any way?
There are many ways but my favorite is lsblk. Here is a demonstration:
sudo lsblk -o NAME,FSTYPE,SIZE,MOUNTPOINT,LABEL
That would show the following:
NAME FSTYPE SIZE MOUNTPOINT LABEL
sda 111.8G
├─sda1 swap 121M [SWAP]
└─sda2 ext4 111.7G /
sdb 2.7T
└─sdb1 ext4 2.7T xtreme
sdc 3.7T
└─sdc1 ext4 3.7T titan
It is showing:
You can play around with the options by first looking at the ones available with lsblk --help. I like lsblk because of the friendly way of showing the information if compared for example with fdisk or parted.
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