[plug] directory places

[James Devenish]

In message <6.0.0.22.0.20031229195807.01b35a80 at pop.ozemail.com.au>
on Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 08:15:27PM +0800, smclevie wrote:
> Q.  How does one know where each directory at root is actually on disk?
[...]
> My partitions are "/" "/usr" "/home" "/tmp" "/usr/local" "/var" and 
> "/storage"
[...]
> Which means  bin, boot, cdrom, dev, etc, floppy, initrd, lib, mnt, opt, 
> proc and root are in the "/" partition.

Yep.

> I assume anything not specifically given a partition lies in the bootable 
> "/" partition ...

Technically, all the paths *do* have a specifically-given partition,
because all the paths begin with "/" :-) But you are on the right track
in looking for the "most specific" mount point. That is, you can tell
that /usr/a/b/c will be in /usr because /usr is a longer match than /