Newbie File system

Jerry McAllister jerrymc at clunix.cl.msu.edu
Tue May 16 10:20:21 PDT 2006


> 
> Maan Jee wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > Can someone explane that at which filesystem is my "/home" directory
> > located?
> > 
> > 
> > Filesystem  1K-blocks    Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> > /dev/ad0s1a    507630    55002   412018      12%    /
> > devfs                       1           1           0     100%    /dev
> > /dev/ad0s1e    507630          12   467008       0%    /tmp
> > /dev/ad0s1f  34336100 1564298 30024914     5%    /usr
> > /dev/ad0s1d   1506190    24892  1360804      2%    /var
> > 
> > thanks..../mj
> 
> Anything under /, that doesn't show up in 'df' is, of course, on the /
> file system. However, since /home is just a symlink to /usr, the
> answer to your question is it's under /usr.

Actually, the default is /home is a symlink to /usr/home
not just /home.

But, I think the poster really means where is the login home directory.
you can find that out many ways, most of which have been mentioned.

finger user_id

grep user_id /etc/passwd

  cd
  pwd

etc

////jerry

> 
> Frank
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