Find out which partition a directory is located on in Linux?

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Is there a way to find out which partition a directory is located in?

I know I can use df to list partitions and mount points but I need to be able to find out which partition any directory is located in with a simple command.

On UNIX with more answers: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/11311/how-do-i-find-on-which-physical-device-a-folder-is-located — Ciro Santilli OurBigBook.com, Mar 21 '15 at 08:56

score 52 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 08 '10 at 10:22

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df -h .

gives you:

$ df -h .
Filesystem     Size   Used  Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/disk0s2  1.4Ti  390Gi  1.0Ti    28%    /

so you have 'mounted on' for that dir

answered Feb 08 '10 at 10:22

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score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:14

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take a look at this post on serverfault. it should give you all the information you need.

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answered Feb 08 '10 at 10:23

Christian

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It's recommended to copy the information to your post rather than referring to another page. – l0b0 Apr 24 '13 at 07:58

score 1 · Answer 3 · edited Feb 10 '15 at 10:15

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[rajat@rajat ~]$ df -HT

Filesystem    Type     Size   Used  Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda6     ext4      22G   7.4G    14G  36% /
tmpfs        tmpfs     1.1G   349k   1.1G   1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1     ext3     200M    53M   137M  28% /boot

[rajat@rajat ~]$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda6              20G  6.9G   13G  36% /
tmpfs                 987M  340K  986M   1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1             190M   50M  131M  28% /boot

cd /dev/sda

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answered Feb 08 '10 at 13:21

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Useful for me because shows type of FS – ijoseph Mar 18 '20 at 20:19

Find out which partition a directory is located on in Linux?

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