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   From: dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org   
      
   On Sun, 09 Feb 2025 01:11:45 -0500, Jasen Betts    
   wrote:   
      
   > On 2025-02-05, pinnerite  wrote:   
   >> I need to be able to identify the partition address and its file   
   >> address, particularly when I have two drives on-line.   
   >>   
   >> I tried a variety of live devices. Antix was the only one that came   
   >> close.   
   >>   
   >> But years ago I remember a file manager that would allow the user to   
   >> use a single click to switch the contents of the address line at the   
   >> top from say /home/fred to /dev/sdb2 or back. I could not re-locate it.   
   >>   
   >> Does this strike a chord?   
   >   
   > assuming you don't actually mean /dev/sdb2 which is a block   
   > device, not a mounted file system.   
   >   
   > Nautilus, has backwards, forwards, bookmarks, and tabs. It's the standard   
   > GNOME file-manager.  For some reason GNOME call it "Files"   
      
   I suspect it is /dev/sdb2 being referred to, for the purpose of making sure   
   it's backed up etc.   
      
   With complicated filesystem layouts, it's easy to forget what is where.   
      
   I vaguely remember a gui file manager that had the device as an optional   
   column. For the   
   amount of time I needed it, I considered it a waste of screen space, so didn't   
   use it and don't   
   remember which file manager had it.   
      
   I have a file called default.gpfl in my home directory. Assuming I want to   
   find out what   
   device it's on ...   
      
   $ stat /home/dave/default.gpfl | grep ^Dev   
   Device: 259,11  Inode: 5411522     Links: 1   
      
   To find out what device 259,11 is replace the comma with a colon and preface   
   it with   
   "/sys/dev/block/".   
      
   $ ls -l /sys/dev/block/259:11   
   lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Feb  8 19:33 /sys/dev/block/259:11 -> .   
   /../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.4/0000:05:00.0/nvme/nvme1/nvme1n1/nvme1n1p7/   
      
   So it's /dev/nvme1n1p7 that would need to work with to ensure the file   
   /home/dave/default.gpfl was included.   
      
   On my system currently ...   
   $ mount|grep nvme1n1p7   
   /dev/nvme1n1p7 on /data type ext4 (rw,relatime)   
      
   I didn't put /home on a separate file system in this install when I created it   
   as it was just   
   a test installation. I moved it later and replaced it with a symlink ...   
   $ ls -l / | grep home   
   lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root    10 Dec 14 12:17 home -> /data/home/   
      
   $ mount | grep ' / '   
   /dev/ on / type ext4 (rw,relatime)   
      
   With /home having been moved, anyone looking at just the mount command output   
   would   
   think files in /home/dave were in nvme1n1p8, not nvme1n1p7.   
      
   This was one of the test installs till my main computer died. I then used my   
   backup to restore   
   my data into this install.   
      
   Regards, Dave Hodgins   
      
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