Mention How do you access partitions under Linux? › Category: Linux › Mention How do you access partitions under Linux? 0 Vote Up Vote Down Editor">Editor Staff asked 2 years ago Mention How do you access partitions under Linux? 1 Answers 0 Vote Up Vote Down Editor">Editor Staff answered 2 years ago Linux assigns numbers at the end of the drive identifier. For example, if the first IDE hard drive had three primary partitions, they would be named/numbered, /dev/hda1, /dev/hda2 and /dev/hda3.