<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>df returns answer in bytes df -h in Mb P ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nigel Ridley" <nigel@prayingforisrael.net> To: "Kubuntu Help and User Discussions" <kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com> Sent: Monday, November 2, 2009 1:45:42 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: Doing a clean install of 9.10 pkaplan1@comcast.net wrote: > Try mount command in a terminal. > One of the lines should be /dev/sdXY on /home, where X is a letter depending on whether it is the first, second, etc hard drive and Y is a number indicating the partition number. That will be your home partition. You should also see /dev/sdXY on / which will be the root partition. > Thanks for that. Is it possible to get partition sizes from the cmd line? I remember from my last clean install that the text installer/partitioner (alternate CD) doesn't give much clue as to which partitions are /root /home except that it does give partition sizes. I could then match known sizes against what the installer/partitioner is offering. Nigel > Paul > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Nigel Ridley" <nigel@prayingforisrael.net> > To: "Kubuntu Help and User Discussions" <kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com> > Sent: Monday, November 2, 2009 1:24:55 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern > Subject: Doing a clean install of 9.10 > > So after reading that some on the list had problems with their upgrades, I've decided to do a > clean install of 9.10. > > Not wanting to wipe my [separate] /home partition - how do I know which _is_ my /home partition? > This might sound like a stupid question but there used to be a time when /home was on, say, hda5; > nowadays with all this uid (or whatever it's called) there is no hda5, hda1 etc. only [stupid] > unrecognizable too_long_for_humans_to_remember numbers! > > So how do I format /root and not /home? > > Blessings, > > Nigel > > -- kubuntu-users mailing list kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users </div></body></html>