re-installing Debian

[jim grimsby]

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 at braille.uwo.ca
[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

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