From: Ant on
>>> Sorry, you are very unclear. Do you have a completely separate partition
>>> /boot and for /? Or is /boot just a directory in /?
>>
>> $ cd /
>> $ ls -all
>> total 65
>
> "ls" doesn't say whether /boot is a separate partition. "df" or
> "cat /etc/fstab" would.

$ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1 280003 157601 107946 60% /
tmpfs 1297724 0 1297724 0% /lib/init/rw
udev 10240 264 9976 3% /dev
tmpfs 1297724 0 1297724 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda5 14421344 5334900 8353884 39% /home
/dev/hda6 4807056 3624300 938572 80% /usr
/dev/hda7 964500 613884 301620 68% /var
/dev/hda8 964500 17680 897824 2% /tmp
/dev/hda9 4807056 206076 4356796 5% /usr/local
/dev/hda11 47383396 20597824 24378636 46% /extra
/dev/hda12 918322 16451 852875 2% /others

$ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hda5 /home ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/hda6 /usr ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/hda7 /var ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/hda8 /tmp ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/hda9 /usr/local ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/hda10 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hda11 /extra ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/hda12 /others ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/sda1 /mnt/usb-flash vfat noauto,users,umask=000 0 0

none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devgid=46,devmode=664 0 0
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