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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-bounces at 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 _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
