>>>>> "alex" == alex <radsky@ncia.net> writes: alex> When I installed Debian, I made a 1 GB /home partition in hda6. alex> The system works fine but I don't understand why when I look at alex> /home and its subdirectories,there's nothing that indicates that alex> hda6 is mounted there What would you expect to see? alex> but mtab and fstab both show it is there. Likewise, when I look alex> at hda6, there's nothing that shows that it is the /home alex> partition. When I do a mkdir, touch, cp, or mv to a /home alex> subdirectory, the file does appear there but nothing shows in hda6 alex> not even a user.. You mean in /dev/hda6? That is because /dev/hda6 is a block device, not a directory. /dev/hda6 represents the raw contents on the disk, so there should not be anything under /dev/hda6. alex> It seems to me that whatever is sent to /home should appear in alex> hda6. Here's my problem, hda6 is a 1 GB partition mounted in alex> /home and it appears to remain empty even after I have accumulated alex> a lot of data in /home. Run df to see how much space is being used on /dev/hda6. -- Hubert Chan <hubert@uhoreg.ca> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted e-mail preferred.
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