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Operating Systems Linux Questions of a newbie Post 79780 by Brycemb16 on Sunday 31st of July 2005 10:10:09 PM

07-31-2005

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Questions of a newbie

I have been an apple customer for years now, and am not satisfied with the direction that they are going. So I just ordered my first PC notebook the other day. I have no desire to use windows, however with microsoft's hold on the market, I feel that I may have a hard time doing this. I want to install windows as my primary OS, as I have no clue as to what Im doing with Linux. I would like to divide my hard disk into 2 partitions, one large windows partition, and a slightly smaller Linux partition. The goal is to learn linux without just jumping in, I want to still have a laptop that I am able to operate.

Does linux run well on a partitioned hard drive (or at all)?

What version of linux would you recomend for a first time user of a single system? I would like to get into open source programing, at some point, but first, I want to learn the operating system.

I wouldnt mind being able to run OS X on my laptop and I was wondering if, with a linux or unix system, I could somehow cheat OS X into running?

Any help in this matter would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Bryce

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findfs

FINDFS(8)						       System Administration							 FINDFS(8)

NAME

       findfs - find a filesystem by label or UUID

SYNOPSIS

       findfs NAME=value

DESCRIPTION

       findfs  will  search the block devices in the system looking for a filesystem or partition with specified tag. The currently supported tags
       are:

       LABEL=<label>
	      Specifies filesystem label.

       UUID=<uuid>
	      Specifies filesystem UUID.

       PARTUUID=<uuid>
	      Specifies partition UUID. This partition identifier is supported for example for GUID  Partition	Table (GPT) partition tables.

       PARTLABEL=<label>
	      Specifies partition label (name). The partition labels are supported for example for GUID Partition Table  (GPT)	or  MAC  partition
	      tables.

       If the filesystem or partition is found, the device name will be printed on stdout.

       The complete overview about filesystems and partitions you can get for example by

	      lsblk --fs

	      partx --show <disk>

	      blkid

EXIT STATUS

	      0      success
	      1      label or uuid cannot be found
	      2      usage error, wrong number of arguments or unknown option

AUTHOR

       findfs was originally written by Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> and re-written for the util-linux package by Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>.

ENVIRONMENT

       LIBBLKID_DEBUG=all
	      enables libblkid debug output.

SEE ALSO

       blkid(8), lsblk(8), partx(8)

AVAILABILITY

       The  findfs  command  is  part of the util-linux package and is available from Linux Kernel Archive <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils
       /util-linux/>.

util-linux							    March 2014								 FINDFS(8)