On Thu, 21 Feb 2002 15:31:57 -0800 (PST) David Talkington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ah, grasshopper, you've discovered one of the seventh wonders of the > world -- the 'masking' effect when one filesystem is mounted on top of > another. :-) > > You can get the same effect with any mount, local or nfs. If you fill > /usr/local with stuff, then mount some other partition on > /usr/local, you now have access to the stuff on the new partition -- > but the stuff on the "real" /usr/local is hidden, inaccessible to you > or anyone else until you umount the mounted filesystem. It's still > there, obviously, as you saw ... there's just no access path to it. > > So if you want, as I do, access to a skeleton home directory on the > client, while still having access to your data on a /home server, you > need to be more creative. I mount atlantis:/home on > littleblue:/mnt/home, and then put a symlink to /mnt/home/dtalk at > ~/atlantis on littleblue. I can then get to my data via that link, > without obscuring the local files and configurations on the client. > Well, more what I was wondering is whether that diskspace ever gets reclaimed as it is unused while the remote directory is mounted over it, and whether there is any way of accessing that diskspace/ those files while the remote directory is mounted (which it seems the answer to the latter, at least, is no). Thanks, Monte -- All right, breaks over. Back on your heads!! _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
