df -h (1) does show that /dev/hda4 is mounted to the proper point but that still leaves the question whether or not it is being used for /home and why I ran out of disk space..

As for the scsi drive (2), it is VERY small and slow (old?) so I figured that it would be good for a swap drive.

The other commands you wished me to issue (ls -l /mnt/hda3 & hda4 revealed where I had placed my ripped music and that /mnt/hda4 is being used as home (3). I suppose that since fstab has /dev/hda4 being mounted to /mnt/hda4 it means that it truly is being used. 

I just read Jerry's mailing and it seems that my understanding of what fstab does is flawed.
Hmmmmmm.....

Wait.... there it is! df does show it!

(1)
bmike1@0[bmike1]$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2             4.0G  3.3G  504M  87% /
/dev/hda4              16G  1.3G   14G   9% /mnt/hda4
tmpfs                 189M     0  189M   0% /dev/shm
bmike1@0[bmike1]$

(2)
bmike1@0[bmike1]$ fdisk -l /dev/sda1

Disk /dev/sda1: 1049 MB, 1049608192 bytes
64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 1000 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes

Disk /dev/sda1 doesn't contain a valid partition table
bmike1@0[bmike1]$     

(3)
bmike1@0[Documents]$ ls -l /mnt/hda4
total 24
drwxr-xr-x   45 bmike1   bmike1       4096 2006-02-07 18:43 bmike1
drwx------    2 root     root        16384 2004-06-30 16:32 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 2005-03-27 20:07 Mark
bmike1@0[Documents]$       

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