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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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ftl_format

FTL_FORMAT(1)						      General Commands Manual						     FTL_FORMAT(1)

NAME

       ftl_format - Flash Translation Layer formatting utility

SYNOPSIS

       ftl_format [-q] [-i] [-s spare] [-r reserve] [-b bootsize] device

DESCRIPTION

       Ftl_format  creates  a Flash Translation Layer partition on a flash memory device.  It needs to access the flash partition's raw character-
       mode device (such as /dev/mem0c0c).

       This is actually a low-level format operation, required before accessing a memory device via the FTL block device driver.  Once a partition
       is  prepared  with ftl_format, a filesystem should be created in a separate step.  Filesystem commands should access the device via the FTL
       device file (such as /dev/ftl0).

       Optionally, ftl_format can reserve a region at the beginning of the flash card address space for a boot image (or any other purpose).   The
       boot area is not part of the FTL partition, and can only be accessed via the raw memory device.

       On  Intel  Series 100 flash cards, the first flash block is used to store the card's configuration information structures.  If no boot area
       is specified on the command line, ftl_format will automatically create one to span the first block.

OPTIONS

       -q     Quiet mode: don't print formatting statistics.

       -i     Interactive: confirm before beginning the format.

       -s spare
	      Reserve the specified number of erase blocks as spares.  The default is 1.  A read-write	partition  requires  at  least	one  spare
	      block.

       -r reserve
	      Reserve  the  specified percentage of the total space on the device to improve write efficiency.	The default is 5%.  Reserving less
	      space increases the frequency of flash erase operations to reclaim free blocks.

       -b bootsize
	      Requests that a portion of the flash card be reserved for a boot image.  The size will be rounded up to an integral number of  erase
	      blocks.

AUTHOR

       David Hinds - dahinds@users.sourceforge.net

SEE ALSO

       ftl_cs(4), ftl_check(8).

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