On Tuesday 07 February 2006 05:58 pm, bmike101@cox.net wrote:
> I <supposedly> have my home directories on their own partiton..... but I
> wonder if that is so considering that I ran out of disk space last week.
> I'm going to share my ftab with you and ask you how I would know if it is
> going to the /dev/hda4 or just /mnt/hda4 (is the home partition being
> used?) One more thing.... how do i  get it to be used?
>
> /dev/hda2 / ext3 defaults,noatime 1 1
> /dev/hda4 /mnt/hda4 ext3 defaults,noatime 1 1
> /dev/sda1 swap swap sw,pri=1 0 0
> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
> devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0622 0 0
> none /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults 0 0
> # Dynamic entries
> /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 vfat noauto,users,exec,umask=000 0 0
> /dev/hda3 /mnt/hda3 ext3 noauto,users,exec 0 0
>
> This is my understanding of this fstab:
> /dev/hda2 is being mounted to root
> /dev/hda4 is being mounted to /mnt/hda4
> /dev/sda1 is my swap drive
> I have no clue about the next two lines.
> I think the #Dynamic entries are just the directories which can be mounted
> on-the-fly.
>
> Is this understanding correct?

yep.

you do NOT have a /home directory on its own partition.
it is part of /
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