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On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 15:53 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: |
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> Can anyone tell me how determine what these kind of useless names |
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> really mean? |
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> From df -h |
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> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on |
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> rootfs 1.9G 283M 1.6G 15% / |
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> /dev/root 1.9G 283M 1.6G 15% / |
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> How are you supposed to tell what actual device these things are on. |
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> I know I can look in fstab... but that is something of a crap shoot |
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> since it is user configured. |
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> So what commands will show real devices not makebelieve baloney, and |
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> allow me to see the usage devices are put to? |
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> Why do we use these kind of names anyway? |
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> fdisk yes, but you can't tell what usage the devices are put to with that. |
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# readlink -f /dev/root |
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