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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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auto.master

AUTO.MASTER(5)							File Formats Manual						    AUTO.MASTER(5)

NAME

       /etc/auto.master - Master Map for automounter

DESCRIPTION

       The  auto.master map is consulted when the autofs(8) script is invoked to set up the necessary mount points for the automounter.  Each line
       in this file describes a mount point and points to another file describing the file systems to be mounted under this mountpoint. The access
       to those maps is governed by a key.

       Access to an automounted file system is customarily done using the path scheme:

       /mountpoint/key/path/file,

       where  the mountpoint will be listed in the auto.master configuration file. The key is matched in the map file pointed to by the master map
       (See autofs(5)).  The path and the file are referring to the file on the file system mounted.

FORMAT

       The file has three fields separated by an arbitrary number of blanks or tabs. Lines beginning with # are comments. The first field  is  the
       mount  point.  Second field is the map file to be consulted for this mount-point.  This field is of the form maptype:mapname, where maptype
       is one of the supported map types (file, program, yp, nisplus, hesiod, userdir, ldap), and mapname is the name of the map. The third  field
       is optional and can contain options to+ be applied to all entries in the map. Options are cumulative, which is a difference from the behav-
       ior of the SunOS automounter.

       The format of the map file and the options are described in autofs(5).

EXAMPLE

	 /home	   /etc/auto.home
	 /misc	   /etc/auto.misc
	 /mnt	   yp:mnt.map

       This will generate three mountpoints /home, /misc, and /mnt.  All  accesses  to	/home  will  lead  to  the  consultation  of  the  map	in
       /etc/auto.home, all accesses to /misc will consult the map in /etc/auto.misc, and all accesses to /mnt will consult the NIS map mnt.map.

SEE ALSO

       automount(8), autofs(5), autofs(8).

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Christoph Lameter <chris@waterf.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system.  Edited by <hpa@transmeta.com>.

								    19 Jun 2000 						    AUTO.MASTER(5)

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