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On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 23:35:14 -0500 (EST)
"David B. Carter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I was fooling around the other day, and I reinstalled Windows 2000 Pro
> and Mandrake 9.2 in a dual-boot setup. I have a secondary 6GB hard
> drive that I wanted to see if I could partition and format as a single
> FAT32 partition that could be read/written by both OS's. It worked! In
> MDK 9.2, it is mounted as /winshare.
> 
> Now, I'm playing again. I opened DiskDrake, and (I thought) deleted
> the/winshare partition, reformatted using ext3 and mounted it as
> /var/servers for putting my FTP and WWW stuff. Now, when I restart, I
> have a/var/servers AND a /winshare.
> 
> How come I still have /winshare? I thought I got rid of it!

what do you mean you "have" /winshare?? does it show up in diskdrake??
or do you just mean the directory /windshare exists??

its normal for the directory to remain even after you remove the
partition, the directory where you mount partitions is stored at the
parent partition (on the root partition in this case).

cheers,
Alaa
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