# Help with Installing on a Partition

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-with-installing-on-a-partition/239978>\
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**Created:** [September 25, 2022, 12:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-with-installing-on-a-partition/239978 "2022-09-25T00:30:11Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 25, 2022, 2:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-with-installing-on-a-partition/239978/5 "2022-09-25T14:59:45Z")

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> [@spectre](#):
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> It is mounted on **/dev/sda4**

No, that’s the device. Did you mount it?  
You could mount it at `/var/discourse` and then you’d get what you want.

See for instance [https://devconnected.com/how-to-mount-and-unmount-drives-on-linux/](https://devconnected.com/how-to-mount-and-unmount-drives-on-linux/) (first Google hit that I liked)

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