On Thursday 26 March 2009 20:57:34 postid wrote: > Just finished a lenny install. I used manual partitioning in the > graphical installer to do the following: > > #1 primary 19.0 GB ntfs > #2 primary 6.0 GB B F ext3 / > #5 logical 1.0 GB F swap swap > #6 logical 14.0 GB F ext3 /home > > #1 is Win2000 and boots from grub just fine. Lenny works nicely, > too, however things arren't exactly where I suspected they would > be, but then I've not had logical partitions before. > > 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. > > When I make a directory of the filesystem, I see that there's a > home folder there that properties tells me is located at / and is > a volume called /home which is 13 GB. > > Shouldn't /home be listed as a separate drive? Shouldn't it have > its own icon? Why is it located in /, it's its own partition, > isn't it? Or, as a logical partition, is it physically located > within /?
hda6 is a separate partition, but when it is mounted, it is mounted on the /home directory in the / file structure. /home is then part of the root file system, and can be reached by going down through your root file system. Though many people have an icon that leads straight to /home (generally looking like a little house). When you created the /mount directory you created just that, a directory. It will remain empty until and unless you mount something on it (e.g. mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt). it will then "contain" the files on the second hard drive (or first CDROM or whatever). It might be worth reading up on the Unix/Linux file structure and also on partitioning. HTH Lisi > /etc/fstab lists hda2, hda5 and hda6, so at the console at least > it's a separate partition. > > I see, however, that that when I make a directory of /mnt it's > empty! If I'm in / or home (hda2 or hda6), shouldn't the other > one appear in /mnt? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
