Ext4 File System: newbee question

[Andreas Dilger]

On 2010-03-16, at 14:43, MirJafar Ali wrote:
> I have installed Ubuntu 9.10 and it has ext4 filesystem. I have one  
> very elementary question. When I say my filesystem is "ext4", which  
> directories are part of it. I mean from the root I can see some  
> directories such as /proc, /tmp, /dev etc. Are they store on the  
> disk which have formatted with ext4, of certain files resides  
> somewhere else.
>
> I am only sure only about /home directory because I keep my disk  
> mobile and data goes with me all the time.

Please run "mount" and "df", which show the mountpoints for each  
filesystem.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.