# List Disk Partitions with `fdisk` The `fdisk` command manipulates the disk partition table. You can, for example, use `fdisk` to list the disk partitions so that you can identify the root Linux file system. The following example shows `/dev/sda1` to be the root Linux partition: fdisk -l Disk /dev/ram0: 4 MiB, 4194304 bytes, 8192 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes ... Disk /dev/sda: 8 GiB, 8589934592 bytes, 16777216 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: gpt Disk identifier: 3CFA568B-2C89-4290-8B52-548732A3972D Device Start End Sectors Size Type /dev/sda1 2048 16771071 16769024 8G Linux filesystem /dev/sda2 16771072 16777182 6111 3M BIOS boot