Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 19:38:29 -0500 From: Alex Heiphetz <heiphetz@cvzoom.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: / partition Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.19990129193829.0092da80@cvzoom.net>
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At 09:04 PM 1/29/99 +0000, you wrote: >On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Dennis I. Kovarsky wrote: > >>How do I find out which directories are part of my "/" partition? >>Which directories HAVE to be in the "/" and can not be moved? > >You have to look at your system and look at /etc/fstab. > >You will see in fstab en entry for /, /usr, /var. Cd to / and do ls. All >of the dirs that you see in / that are not /usr or /var actually belong to >the / filesystem. > >But be careful, some of those are links. For example, /home is actually a >link to /usr/home. It depends on which partitions you created (or that were created for you) during installation. I for one, in addition to abovementioned /, /usr and /var have /src and (real!) /home. In addition system creates /proc regardless. To make long things short: type df at the prompt and you will see all real partitions. Regards, A.Heiphetz To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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