slave drive mounting where?

[Jamon Camisso]

On November 21, 2007 05:25:22 pm Chris Aitken wrote:
> My hard drive is filling up at an alarming rate since I started using
> the iPod. I thought I was ready for this when, as dfew weeks  ago, I
> thought I formatted a separate drive (/dev/sdb) to store .ogg's. It
> was to mount on /bckupdrv. Now I'm getting conflicting information:
>
> [root at p733 chris]# /sbin/fdisk -l /dev/sdb
>
> Disk /dev/sdb: 10.0 GB, 10005037056 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1216 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sdb1               1        1216     9767488+  83  Linux
> [root at p733 chris]# df /dev/sdb1
>
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> -                       192016       140    191876   1% /dev
>
> [root at p733 chris]#
>
> It looks like the 10 GB drive is there, but why is it saying it is
> mounted on /dev?
>
> THe bottom line is I want to make sure I am saving .ogg's to the
> separate slave drive not my primary drive.
>
> How can I verify this?

Try running "mount" with no options, that will show all the mounted 
devices. Then try "df -h", that will show you the space usage on your 
mounted devices. 

You can use du with various options to see which directories are taking 
up more space than other too.

Jamon
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