Eve Atley wrote: > > I ran the df command on Redhat Linux 9, and came up with > this...what exactly does it mean? Which is my main drive?
You appear to have two drives: a master HD on your primary IDE cable: > /dev/hda1 101089 29129 66741 31% /boot > /dev/hda2 37334192 5058672 30379048 15% / And a slave HD on your primary IDE cable: > /dev/hdb1 57669728 38728096 16012184 71% /home The master HD has two partitions mounted: a 101mb boot partition and a 37gb root partition. The slave HD has one partition mounted: a 57gb partition containing the /home subdirectory. > I'd like to change the path to instead backup to where > I may have space... You have space (30gb) on your root partition (on master HD), so it would possible to use it for a compressed backup of /home (from slave HD). That would put your backup on a different HD. This is good. However, it is not so good to have your only backup on the same machine. A fire, power surge or other catastrophe could destroy both the original and the backup. It is better for the backup to be on a different machine (or, better yet, at a different location). Cheers, Steven ____________________________ http://www.basiclinux.com.ru - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
