Find out where a mount point is physically located?

Ken Rossman wkrossman at gmail.com
Fri Oct 29 15:33:20 UTC 2010


On Oct 29, 2010, at 11:21 AM, Matty Sarro wrote:

> Greetings everyone!
> I'm hoping this isn't too noobish of a question.
> Right now I am working on a server that was configured to a vendor's specs.
> The vendor then came on site, and deployed their software onto the server.
> However, there were some extra partitions that we'd created for the
> installation and I'm not sure that they were actually used. In / there is
> now a mount point called /u1. Is there any way that I can correlate that
> back to a particular device on the system? I tried df -h and it isn't really
> helping.

There may be a better way, but I was always partial to something like this:

  # cd /u1
  # df .

This should show you whether the partition is root or some other partition.
The physical device will be listed on the left, the mount point on the right.

KR





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