From: "jim grimsby" <jimgrims@pacbell.net>
To: "'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'"
<speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: RE: re-installing Debian
Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 17:17:53 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <000901c551d1$0ef13270$220110ac@jim> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0505051857300.31046@dell.midsouth.rr.com>
Hi, well if he used the default means of setting up his drive then /home
is on the root file system.
Hth
-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-bounces@braille.uwo.ca
[mailto:speakup-bounces@braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Adam Myrow
Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 5:08 PM
To: Glenn at home; Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Subject: Re: re-installing Debian
On Thu, 5 May 2005, Glenn at home wrote:
> But I am sure it is on the same partition, because I just do cd /home
> from / and I am in home.
That does not mean it's on the same partition. That's the way Unix and
Linux work. All directories are mounted under /, no matter whether they
are on a floppy, hard disk, MP3 player, CD ROM, DVD, etc. The only way
to
be sure about whether /home is on another partition is to look at
/etc/fstab, or do a "df" command without options. If /home is on its
own
partition, it will be listed, along with its device, and how much space
is
used and free. Or, if you do "df -h," you'll get the same information
in
a more readable format with sizes given in whatever unit is appropriate.
For example, here is what my system looks like. I have a dual boot
system
with Windows XP Professional, and Slackware 10.1. I have a large
"/backup" partition which I store system backups on before I burn them
to
DVD+RW. Not surprisingly, Windows takes up way more space than Linux,
even with lots of programs under /usr/local which I have compiled
myself.
I am considering splitting the /backup partition off, and moving
/usr/local onto its own partition as well. My hard drive is serial ATA,
but for some reason, the kernel support for that is under SCSI, so it
shows up as /dev/sda instead of /dev/hda.
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 7.8G 3.5G 4.0G 47% /
/dev/sda5 2.0G 532M 1.4G 28% /home
/dev/sda7 19G 2.0G 16G 11% /backup
/dev/sda2 83G 14G 70G 16% /windows
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` jim grimsby
` Glenn at home
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