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From: James Long <list@museum.rain.com>
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Subject: Re: Newbie File system
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> Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 21:38:57 -0700
> From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>
> Subject: Re: Newbie File system
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> James Long wrote:
> >> Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 17:20:33 +0200
> >> From: "Maan Jee" <maanjee@gmail.com>
> >> Subject: Newbie File system
> >> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
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> >> Can someone explane that at which filesystem is my "/home" directory
> >> located?
> >>     
> >
> > cd /home && df .
> >
> > will tell you.
> >   
> "df -h ~", "df -h $HOME", or "df -h `printenv HOME`" will do the trick.
> -Garrett

I'm not sure you read the post correctly.  He's asking where the "/home"
directory is on his system.

/home is typically a symlink to /usr/home, although it doesn't have to be.

My reply will definitively tell the user which filesystem the /home
directory (or symlink) resides on.