slave drive mounting where?

[Chris Aitken]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:

<snip>
>> 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?
>>     
>
> No, when you ask df with a path, it tells you the info for whatever
> device contains what you asked for.  So since you asked for df on
> /dev/sdb1 you got the info on whatever holds the device node /dev/sdb1
> which is generally the root filesystem.  You wanted to ask df about
> wherever you mounted /dev/sdb1 to since it needs to be mounted to tell
> how full it is (since it requires filesystem knowledge to see that info,
> which df doesn't have so instead you must mount it first and then ask df
> for the info on that mount point).
>
> So if you went: 
> mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt
> df /mnt
>
> Then you would get useful info.
>
> You can check for yourself.  Try:
> df /
> df /dev
> df /dev/random
> etc...
>   
[root at p733 chris]# df /dev
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
-                       192016       140    191876   1% /dev
[root at p733 chris]# df /dev/sdb1
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
-                       192016       140    191876   1% /dev

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> Len Sorensen
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