On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 18:11 -0700, Jerry Davis wrote: > On Tuesday 07 February 2006 05:58 pm, bmike101@cox.net wrote: > > I 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 / ---- I'm not gonna spend a lot of time thinking about this but... ln -s /mnt/hda4 /home # might be possible and would mean /home isn't really on / and issuing a 'mount' command might reveal more than might be obvious... /home/share on /usr/share type none (rw,bind) where I have done a --bind mount that might not necessarily be listed in /etc/fstab but I don't ***think*** that Mike has done any of that trickery. Craig --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss