Re: Mount on non-empty directories (Was: sysinstall creates corruptfilesystems after repartitioning)

2007-03-02 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steven Hartland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > Mike Meyer wrote: > > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steven Hartland > > As a general rule, deciding that something is "useless and dangerous" > > and removing it isn't the Unix way of doing things. Just because you > > can't see a use f

Re: Mount on non-empty directories (Was: sysinstall creates corruptfilesystems after repartitioning)

2007-03-02 Thread Eric Anderson
On 03/02/07 09:56, Steven Hartland wrote: Mike Meyer wrote: In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steven Hartland This is just a special case of mounting on a non-empty directory. It should work right. The last mounted file system is the one you get (unless you're using a file system that's designed to behave

Re: Mount on non-empty directories (Was: sysinstall creates corruptfilesystems after repartitioning)

2007-03-02 Thread Steven Hartland
Mike Meyer wrote: In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steven Hartland This is just a special case of mounting on a non-empty directory. It should work right. The last mounted file system is the one you get (unless you're using a file system that's designed to behave another way). If you unmount the directory