Alaa The Great said: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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).
No, it doesn't show up in DiskDrake. The directory is still there, and I can create files in it. So, do I just need to rmdir the directory?
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