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Quoting Richard Owlett (2019-06-15 15:33:37)
> On 06/14/2019 06:10 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > I can't remember the name of the file which identifies the 
> > association between a directory (i.e. \home) and which physical 
> > partition it is on. The file I'm looking for also identifies which 
> > partition is used for swap.
> > 
> > TIA
> > 
> 
> I was looking for /etc/fstab .
> 
> Suggestions were made for tools such as df, mount, and inxi used in an 
> analytic mode. I either ran them or looked up relevant documentation.
> 
> If I had been looking for information one of them could provide, is 
> there a URL that attempts to summarize such tools?

You mentioned "directory", "partition", and "swap".

You could use only man-related tools.  Tedious, but possible:

  apropos swap

...lists "mkswap", "swaplabel", "swapoff" and "swapon", among others

  man swapon

...mentions /etc/fstab in its "See also" section (and man pages of other 
commands mention swapon in their "See also" section).


I would probably have given up before reaching to a sensible result, and 
instead tried a search on https://DuckDuckGo.com/


 - Jonas

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Forgot name of Debian "configuration" {wrong word?} file Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2019-06-14 13:20 +0200
  Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration" {wrong word?} file john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2019-06-14 13:30 +0200
    Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration" {wrong word?} file Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2019-06-14 13:50 +0200
  Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration" {wrong word?} file Erwan David <erwan@rail.eu.org> - 2019-06-14 13:30 +0200
  Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration" {wrong word?} file Erik Christiansen <dvalin@internode.on.net> - 2019-06-14 13:30 +0200
    Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration" {wrong word?} file Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2019-06-14 14:00 +0200
      Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration" {wrong word?} file Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-06-14 19:50 +0200
  Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration" {wrong word?} file Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@jones.dk> - 2019-06-14 13:30 +0200
  Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration" {wrong word?} file songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2019-06-14 14:40 +0200
  Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration" {wrong word?} file Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie@lxtec.de> - 2019-06-14 18:10 +0200
  Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration" {wrong word?} file Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2019-06-14 20:20 +0200
  Intended question - was {Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration"  {wrong word?} file} Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2019-06-15 15:20 +0200
    Re: Intended question - was {Re: Forgot name of Debian  "configuration" {wrong word?} file} Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-06-15 16:30 +0200
      Re: Intended question Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2019-06-15 21:20 +0200
        Re: Intended question Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-06-15 21:30 +0200
      Re: Intended question - was {Re: Forgot name of Debian  "configuration" {wrong word?} file} Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2019-06-15 21:30 +0200
    Re: Intended question - was {Re: Forgot name of Debian  "configuration" {wrong word?} file} David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-06-16 18:10 +0200
      Re: Intended question - was {Re: Forgot name of Debian  "configuration" {wrong word?} file} Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2019-06-16 21:20 +0200
        Re: Intended question - was {Re: Forgot name of Debian  "configuration" {wrong word?} file} john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2019-06-16 21:40 +0200
        Re: Intended question - was {Re: Forgot name of Debian  "configuration" {wrong word?} file} Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2019-06-17 00:30 +0200
        Re: Intended question - was {Re: Forgot name of Debian  "configuration" {wrong word?} file} David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-06-17 04:10 +0200
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            Re: The use of VMs in experimentation schenarios (Was: Re: Intended  question - was...) Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2019-06-17 23:10 +0200
          Re: Intended question - was {Re: Forgot name of Debian  "configuration" {wrong word?} file} Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2019-06-17 23:50 +0200
        Re: Intended question - was {Re: Forgot name of Debian  "configuration" {wrong word?} file} Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2019-06-17 05:00 +0200
          Re: Intended question - was {Re: Forgot name of Debian  "configuration" {wrong word?} file} Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-06-17 20:40 +0200
          Re: Intended question - was {Re: Forgot name of Debian  "configuration" {wrong word?} file} David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-06-18 18:20 +0200
            Re: Intended question Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-06-20 20:10 +0200
              Re: Intended question David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-06-21 04:40 +0200
  Bonus answers - was [Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration" {wrong  word?} file] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2019-06-15 15:40 +0200
    Re: Bonus answers - was [Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration"  {wrong word?} file] songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2019-06-15 22:50 +0200
      Re: Bonus answers - was [Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration"  {wrong word?} file] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2019-06-16 11:50 +0200
    Re: Bonus answers - was [Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration" {wrong word?} file] Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@jones.dk> - 2019-06-16 13:30 +0200
    Re: Bonus answers - was [Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration"  {wrong word?} file] Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2019-06-17 15:20 +0200

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