Following the kind suggestions of messrs. Cormier & Rickenbacherus:
1.a: Type mount, enter. Report:
/dev/hda6 on / type ext3 (rw.errors=remount -ro)
/cev/root.old on /initrd type ext2 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw.gid=5, mode=620)
usbdevfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevs (rw)
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normal?
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1.b: Type cfdisk/dev/hda, enter. Report:
My original partition schedule (as described above), appeared.
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2. I'm getting to this (slow learner). I understand you to mean that if I want the "mounts" to conform with my partition schedule, I must first edit etc/fstab, right? Is emacs my newbie weapon of choice here?
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3. Did
cd/usr, enter, ls, enter. Report:
x1186 bin doc etc games include info lib local man sbin share src.
That tells me nothing about the partition, but tells me that directory /usr is not empty- right?
More later
Tia
chada