Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
SnapafunFrank wrote:
The names are generated by whare they are mounted. This is controlled by /etc/mtab in the root partition, and is also reflected in /proc/mounts. The names will be different if you boot from a CD, and mount them, or if you move the drive to a different system. On a working system, the space information is calculated by the kernel.RickSisler wrote:
SnapafunFrank ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:Thanks for that RickS but as I stated above, the fstab on the system I'm trying to recover is somewhat unreliable.
When within my system I issue the following:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /]# df Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda5 966M 714M 203M 78% / /dev/hda1 966M 14M 903M 2% /boot /dev/hda6 9.4G 5.1G 4.0G 57% /usr /dev/hda8 9.4G 8.8G 693M 93% /home /dev/hda9 1020M 312M 656M 33% /var /dev/hda3 12G 2.0G 8.8G 19% /mnt/empty /dev/hda4 3.4G 2.7G 712M 80% /mnt/win_h /dev/hdb2 16M 2.3M 13M 16% /mnt/hdb2_boot /dev/hdb5 92M 55M 33M 63% /mnt/hdb5_root /dev/hdb6 92M 62M 25M 72% /mnt/hdb6_var /dev/hdb7 3.1G 1.9G 1.1G 64% /mnt/hdb7_usr /dev/hdb9 1.5G 1.4G 151M 91% /mnt/hdb9_home /dev/hdb1 14G 13G 1.2G 92% /mnt/win_c2
I get a summary of all my partitions AND their names.
However, I'm unable to do this when I'm NOT within the system:
So, is there a file on the system that could simply give me this info by
simply reading it ?
Hi,
the *df* command reports free disk space from all mounted file
systems. So take a look at /etc/mtab and /etc/fstab which will give you the
names and mount points your looking for.
For more info.. man mount, fstab and df ....
Hopefully helpfull ..
( It starts that its mount point for one partition is /mnt for example. )
At present I'm even unaware of how many partitions that system has.
There are long ways of finding out but you have given me another place to look before I go there with tomsrtbt.
Again, your input is greatly appreciated.
You can get where things would normaly be mounted by looking in /etc/fstab on the root partition. If you had booted from a CD, and /dev/hda5 were mounted on /mnt, then the file would be /mnt/etc/fstab. (The rescue mode of the install cd has the option of mounting all the partition on /mnt, so that what would normaly be mounted on /mnt/empty would end up mounted on /mnt/mnt/empty, and so forth.
Mikkel
Thanks Mikkel ~ got all that and I now know that getting the names of the partitions that a system users has various ways of finding them out ~
but that no one file that relates specifically
to this is available to see from using another system to look in. Worth a try though.
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