From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from ms-smtp-02-smtplb.ohiordc.rr.com ([65.24.5.136] helo=ms-smtp-02-eri0.ohiordc.rr.com) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1DTqOM-0003KN-00 for ; Thu, 05 May 2005 20:08:30 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.100] (cpe-24-33-4-163.midsouth.res.rr.com [24.33.4.163]) by ms-smtp-02-eri0.ohiordc.rr.com (8.12.10/8.12.7) with ESMTP id j4608QXW023059; Thu, 5 May 2005 20:08:26 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 19:08:25 -0500 (CDT) From: Adam Myrow To: Glenn at home , "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." In-Reply-To: <02ea01c551cd$70281df0$6a00a8c0@desktop> Message-ID: References: <02bf01c55126$24ffacf0$6a00a8c0@desktop> <20050505163404.GC26386@rednote.net> <02ea01c551cd$70281df0$6a00a8c0@desktop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine Subject: Re: re-installing Debian X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 00:08:31 -0000 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