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Shell command to print full path to current home directory

Hello,

This is a bit of an odd question. Most commends like echo $HOME will just print /home/user_name . I have a system where /home is mounted in a directory that is not under / and is also not its own partition.

There is a partition that is mounted in fstab with,

Code:

# shared linux data partition, /home is here by a bind mount
UUID=a89334f7-59b7-4d04-b89b-a5a30c379644  /mnt/linux_data  ext4  defaults  1 2

The home directory is mounted using a bind mount,

Code:

# bind mount /home to directory to a directory on /linux_data
/mnt/linux_data/01_centos  /home   none  bind   0 0

If I click on the home directory icon in dolphin, the location bar indicates /home/user_name as I would expect. Under the hood, this directory should actually be the directory /mnt/linux_data/01_centos/user_name which does exist in that location. I can navigate to /mnt/linux_data/01_centos/user_name by going through the /root icon in dolphin but I would like some means to print the full path to what the OS believes to be /home .

I am having some issues getting dolphin to display the rest of the partition that /home is mounted on and I would like to start by confirming that /home is where I think that it is. Am I making any sense at all???

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hmount

HMOUNT(1)						      General Commands Manual							 HMOUNT(1)

NAME

       hmount - introduce a new HFS volume and make it current

SYNOPSIS

       hmount source-path [partition-no]

DESCRIPTION

       hmount is used to introduce a new HFS volume. A UNIX pathname to the volume's source must be specified. The source may be a block device or
       a regular file containing an HFS volume image.

       If the source medium is partitioned, one partition must be selected to be mounted. If there is only one HFS partition  on  the  medium,	it
       will  be  selected by default. Otherwise, the desired partition number must be specified (as the ordinal nth HFS partition) on the command-
       line. Partition number 0 can be specified to refer to the entire medium, ignoring what might otherwise be perceived  as	a  partition  map,
       although in practice this is probably only useful if you want this command to fail when the medium is partitioned.

       The  mounted  volume becomes "current" so subsequent commands will refer to it.	The current working directory for the volume is set to the
       root of the volume.  This information is kept in a file named .hcwd in the user's home directory.

       If the source medium is changed (e.g. floppy or CD-ROM disc exchanged) after hmount has been called,  subsequent  HFS  commands	will  fail
       until the original medium is replaced or a different volume is made current. To use the same source path with the different medium, reissue
       the hmount command.

EXAMPLES

       % hmount /dev/fd0
	      If a Macintosh floppy disk is available as /dev/fd0, this command makes the floppy current for other HFS commands  such  as  hls(1),
	      hcd(1), hcopy(1), etc.

       % hmount /dev/sd2 1
	      If  a  SCSI disk is available as /dev/sd2, this command finds the first HFS partition on the medium and makes it available for other
	      HFS operations.

NOTES

       hmount does not actually mount an HFS partition over a UNIX directory in the traditional mount(8) sense. It is merely a "virtual" mount, as
       a point of convenience for future HFS operations. Each HFS command independently opens, operates on, and closes the named source path given
       to hmount.

SEE ALSO

       hfsutils(1), hformat(1), humount(1), hvol(1)

FILES

       $HOME/.hcwd

AUTHOR

       Robert Leslie <rob@mars.org>

HFSUTILS
							    08-Nov-1997 							 HMOUNT(1)

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