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From: Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 7:07:21 AM
Subject: [LINUX_Newbies] Re: how do i find the partition a give directory is in









  


    
            --- In LINUX_Newbies@ yahoogroups. com, "Abhishek Misra"

<abhishekfishy2000@ ...> wrote:

>

> hello

> 

> how do i find the partition a give directory is in

> 

> say i wany to know which partition is /home using

> 

> thanks

>



You can use "mount" by itself at the command line with no options, or

the "df" command (I prefer "df -h" for a human-readable output).



Martin

www.techscaliber. com

ok got it , this works



    
  

    
    [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ df -h /home/
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda6              87G  5.9G   77G   8% /
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$

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