Pandu Poluan wrote:
On Sep 16, 2011 9:11 AM, "Dale" <rdalek1...@gmail.com
<mailto:rdalek1...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Now usually when I boot into a dual OS, I go to a console and type
in mount and make certain of what drive / is mounted too. Example for
this, if mounted to sda* then it is my main OS and if mounted to sdb*
then it is my test install. How does one decipher that up there?
Heck, root could be mounted on anything right now. I'm not going to
remove any partitions right now. I could be running off sdb and not
even know it. o_O
>
Try 'realname /dev/root'. Or realpath, I forgot which exactly.
Heck, just do 'ls -la /dev/root' :-)
It's a symlink to the actual dev
Rgds,
Dead on the mark:
root@fireball / # realpath /dev/root
/dev/sda3
root@fireball / # ls -la /dev/root
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Sep 2 09:11 /dev/root -> sda3
root@fireball / #
Thanks. It is sda. Whew !!
Dale
:-) :-)
