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How do I get to know partitions' names?

I entered sudo fdisk -l, and I got:

Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1       156264318   273474494    58605088+   7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2       273474558   353670974    40098208+   7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3       390684798   507894974    58605088+   7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda4       507895038   625105214    58605088+   7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT

For example, which one is DSK_VOL5 or DSK_VOL2?

Peter Mortensen
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It seems like DSK_VOL5 and DSK_VOL2 are your partition's label name. So run sudo blkid command, it will display all of your partitions along with the UUID and partition's label.

$ sudo blkid
[sudo] password for avinash: 
/dev/sda1: UUID="2F4DAFCF02D7EBEB" TYPE="ntfs" 
/dev/sda3: UUID="fbfc57fa-7545-49f9-b1d0-812518de8597" TYPE="ext4" 
/dev/sda5: UUID="C68C57908C5779BF" TYPE="ntfs" 
/dev/sda6: UUID="3EDAD310DAD2C2F7" TYPE="ntfs" 
/dev/sda7: LABEL="New Volume" UUID="B0AEE55CAEE51C1A" TYPE="ntfs"

In the above example, the label name given to my /dev/sda7 partition is New Volume.

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