How Do I Know My Ubuntu Partition?
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Your Ubuntu partition will be on the one which has / in the mount point column. Windows usually takes primary partitions so Ubuntu is not likely to be /dev/sda1 or /dev/sda2 , but feel free to post a screenshot of what your GParted shows if you need more help.

How do I know what partition I have Linux?

View all Disk Partitions in Linux

The ‘-l’ argument stand for (listing all partitions) is used with fdisk command to view all available partitions on Linux. The partitions are displayed by their device’s names. For example: /dev/sda, /dev/sdb or /dev/sdc.

How can I tell which partition Ubuntu is on Windows?

Select the disk you are interested in, then the select the partition. Next show detail of the selected partition to find the Type . Here the type is 0fc63daf-8483-4772-8e79-3d69d8477de4 which if you check the Wikipedia GUID partition table page it will tell you it is Linux.

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