> On the Gnome desktop, when I click on the computer icon, I get a list that
> includes an icon for "filesystem," which appears to be #2 since it's 5.5 GB
> total capacity with 3.3 GB used. But I have no icon for #6 which is /home.
The icon is (as the name says) representing the root of "the
filesystem" (i.e. / and everything underneath including /dev, /sys,
/proc, /home, ..). It does not refer to a drive or a partition.
Stefan