Let's see how a typical distrohopper's disk layout would look like:
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bbq@grill:~$ sudo blkid -o list
device fs_type label mount point UUID
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/dev/sda1 ext4 /media/sda1 888ad3c6-4bc1-4089-b4f4-c32a6a33c0bd
/dev/sda5 ext4 / 7dd68644-0f72-434e-b5fc-8381f0424f91
/dev/sda3 ext4 /media/sda3 e26a7d33-98b8-49f7-8e64-90eb1b7965e0
/dev/sda6 ext4 /media/sda6 f8cfc4d3-8542-4b04-89fc-cef2ef07a821
/dev/sda7 ext4 /media/sda7 62769535-815c-4ff6-a156-840e24f0a40d
/dev/sda8 ext4 /media/sda8 2b1c7764-f2b0-4064-8f7d-1798c208fc74
/dev/sda9 ext4 /media/sda9 98a423e2-4920-414f-acad-c855fdf4c617
And what is the partition where GRUB sits?
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bbq@grill:~$ sudo fdisk -l |grep '*'
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
/dev/sda1 * 1 638 5124703 83 Linux
And how do I know what partition has what kind of Linux installed? A dirty trick:
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cat /boot/grub/grub.cfg |grep class|cut -c 80
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sudo mkdir /media/sda1
sudo mount /dev/sda1 /media/sda1
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cat /media/sda1/boot/grub/grub.cfg |grep class|cut -c 80
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e2label /dev/sda5 WORK
Do this labeling with all your ext filesystem type (!) drives and partitions -- so everything that is ext2, ext3 or ext4, and you will feel a little bit more comfortable when you enter part 2 of this HOWTO :)