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<title
>Partition Information</title>
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<authorgroup>
<author
> <firstname
>Matthias</firstname
> <surname
>H&ouml;lzer</surname
> </author>
<author
> <firstname
>Helge</firstname
> <surname
>Deller</surname
> </author>
<author
> <firstname
>Duncan</firstname
> <surname
>Haldane</surname
> </author>
<author
> <firstname
>Mike</firstname
> <surname
>McBride</surname
> </author>
<othercredit role="translator"
><firstname
>Malcolm</firstname
><surname
>Hunter</surname
><affiliation
><address
><email
>malcolm.hunter@gmx.co.uk</email
></address
></affiliation
><contrib
>KDE British Conversion</contrib
></othercredit>
</authorgroup>

<date
>2002-02-12</date>
<releaseinfo
>3.00.00</releaseinfo>

<keywordset>
<keyword
>KDE</keyword>
<keyword
>KControl</keyword>
<keyword
>drive partition</keyword>
<keyword
>system information</keyword>
</keywordset>
</articleinfo>

<sect1>
<title
>Partition Information</title>

<para
>This page displays information about partitions on your hard drives.</para>

<note
><para
>The exact information displayed is system-dependent. On some systems, partition information cannot be displayed yet.</para
></note>

<para
>On &Linux;, this information is read from <filename class="devicefile"
>/proc/partitions</filename
>, which is only available if the <filename class="directory"
>/proc</filename
> pseudo-filesystem is compiled into the (2.1.x or later) kernel.</para>

<para
>The first two columns are the major and minor numbers respectively. The third column is the number of blocks (usually 1 block = 1024 bytes). The fourth column is a label for the device.</para>

<para
>The user cannot modify any settings on this page.</para>

<sect2 id="partition-author">
<title
>Section Authors</title>

<para
> Matthias H&ouml;lzer <email
>hoelzer@kde.org</email
>, Helge Deller <email
>helge.deller@ruhruni-bochum.de</email
>, Duncan Haldane <email
>duncan@kde.org</email
>,and Michael McBride <email
>mpmcbride7@yahoo.com</email
></para>

<para
>KDE British Conversion Malcolm Hunter <email
>malcolm.hunter@gmx.co.uk</email
></para>

</sect2>
</sect1>

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