Neil,

> I have reached the limit of my Linux knowledge - how can I found out what partition the db is on?

Assuming you know the full path to the firebird database, the simplest
(?) way to get the details is to run df on it. Here's an example:

df -h my_employee.fdb

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda6 30G 13G 16G 45% /databases

The "Filesystem" is the physical device and the /databases is where the
file lives, in the general scheme of things. (Where it's mounted, or a
parent of it is mounted.)

If you get "/dev/sda1" as the Filesystem, then it's on your NTFS file
system.

HTH

Cheers,
Norm.

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