From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 29 16:38:23 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA12465 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 16:38:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.cvzoom.net (ns.cvzoom.net [208.226.154.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA12455 for ; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 16:38:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from heiphetz@cvzoom.net) Received: from night_flight (lcp199.cvzoom.net [208.230.68.199]) by ns.cvzoom.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id TAA08059 for ; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 19:25:38 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.19990129193829.0092da80@cvzoom.net> X-Sender: heiphetz@cvzoom.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 19:38:29 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Alex Heiphetz Subject: Re: / partition Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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