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edited Oct 20, 2019 at 23:06You can use fdisk to have an idea of what kind of partitions you have, for example:
fdisk -lShows:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System/dev/sda1 * 63 204796619 102398278+ 7 HPFS/NTFS/dev/sda2 204797952 205821951 512000 83 Linux/dev/sda3 205821952 976773119 385475584 8e Linux LVMThat way you know that you have sda1,2 and 3 partitions. The -t option is the filesystem type; it can be NTFS, FAT, EXT. In my example, sda1 is ntfs, so it should be something like:
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