Re: fstab

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?
>
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It doesn't appear that you have a /home partition. You have a / (root)
partition, and various /mnt partitions. So your /home directories are
located within your / partition. You'd have to change your fstab to
mount one of them (/dev/hda4?) as /home. If you have existing stuff in
/home you'd want to copy/move it to /dev/hda4 first using flags (cp -a)
to preserve dates & permissions.

To find out how much space you have on your partitions, try "df -h"...

I don't have much time to detail things for you right now, so hopefully
someone else will chime in with detailed info...

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