#!/bin/bash
Drive=hda

#sets the counter that will be stuck on the end of a variable
partcounter=0

# Grabs how many partitions were setup and puts it into an array
partition=(`sfdisk -l /dev/${Drive} | grep ^/dev | cut -d" "  -f1 | sed 's|/dev/||' | tr "\n" " "`)

#test output relavent to this script

# ${#array[*]} outputs the number of variables in the array
echo "${Drive} has ${#partition[@]} partitions:"

# This will output all variables in the array
echo "${partition[@]}" 

# This is another way to output all variables in an array, and may or may not be more useful to you

tmpCounter=0

while [ "$tmpCounter" -lt ${#partition[*]} ]; do
        echo $tmpCounter : ${partition[tmpCounter]}
        tmpCounter=$(expr $tmpCounter + 1)
done