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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Shell command to print full path to current home directory Post 303045911 by apmcd47 on Friday 17th of April 2020 08:24:22 PM
Old 04-17-2020
So basically you want to confirm that /home is on the /mnt/linux_data partition rather than /? You could check out the stat command:
Code:
stat -c%d "${HOME}"

This will give the device number of the partition you are on in decimal. By comparing it with, say, the device number of / you know whether it is on the root or a different partition. Unfortunately stat doesn't give access to the UUID of the device (that I could see, anyway).

While this doesn't in itself confirm that the home directory is mounted on the correct partition, once you have the correct device number you could write a script with that id preloaded into the script.


Of course, all this will have to be done with a script or on the command line, and not, as you initially wished, in the file manager (Dolphin).


Andrew
 

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parted

PARTED(8)							 GNU Parted Manual							 PARTED(8)

NAME

       GNU Parted - a partition manipulation program

SYNOPSIS

       parted [options] [device [command [options...]...]]

DESCRIPTION

       This  manual  page  documents  briefly  the parted command.  Complete documentation is distributed with the package in GNU Info format; see
       below.

       parted is a disk partitioning and partition resizing program.  It allows you to create, destroy, resize, move and copy ext2,  ext3,  linux-
       swap,  FAT  and FAT32 partitions. This is useful for creating space for new operating systems, reorganising disk usage, and copying data to
       new hard disks.

OPTIONS

       -h, --help
	      displays a help message.

       -i, --interactive
	      where necessary, prompts for user intervention.

       -s, --script
	      never prompts for user intervention.

       -v, --version
	      displays the version.

COMMANDS

       [device]
	      The block device to partition.

       [command [options]]
	      Specifies a command to parted. If no command is given, parted will give you a command prompt. Commands are:

	      check partition
		     does a simple check on partition.

	      cp [source-device] source dest
		     copies the source partition's filesystem on source-device (or the current device if no other device  was  specified)  to  the
		     dest partition on the current device.

	      help [command]
		     prints general help, or help on command if specified.

	      mkfs partition fs-type
		     make a filesystem fs-type on partition. fs-type can be one of "FAT", "ext2" or "linux-swap".

	      mklabel label-type
		     Creates  a  new  disklabel (partition table) of label-type.  label-type should be one of "bsd", "gpt", "loop", "mac", "mips",
		     "msdos", "pc98" or "sun".

	      mkpart part-type [fs-type] start end
		     make a part-type partition with filesystem fs-type (if specified), beginning at start  and  ending  at  end  (in  megabytes).
		     part-type should be one of "primary", "logical" or "extended"

	      mkpartfs part-type fs-type start end
		     make a part-type partition with filesystem fs-type beginning at start and ending at end (in megabytes)

	      move partition start end
		     move partition to start at start and end at end. Note: move never changes the minor number

	      name partition name
		     set  the  name  of partition to name. This option works only on Mac and PC98 disklabels. The name can be placed in quotes, if
		     necessary

	      print  displays the partition table

	      quit   exits parted

	      resize partition start end
		     resize the filesystem on partition to start at start and end at end megabytes

	      rm partition
		     deletes partition

	      select device
		     choose device as the current device to edit. device should usually be a Linux hard disk device, but it can  be  a	partition,
		     software raid device or a LVM logical volume if that is necessary

	      set partition flag state
		     change  the state of the flag on partition to state. Flags supported are: "boot", "root", "swap", "hidden", "raid", "lvm" and
		     "lba".  state should be either "on" or "off"

REPORTING BUGS

       Report bugs to <bug-parted@gnu.org>

SEE ALSO

       fdisk(8), mkfs(8), The parted program is documented fully in the GNU partitioning software manual available via the Info system.

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Timshel Knoll <timshel@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

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