Op zondag 14 november 2004 22:40, schreef Colin Murphy:
The unmounted version comes back. I can even write to the file, note the file size: linux:/ # ls -l /data1 total 5 drwxr-xrwx 2 root root 80 2004-11-14 21:24 . drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 584 2004-11-10 20:54 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 colin users 38 2004-11-14 21:24 emptytestfile linux:/ #
Can someone explain how this can be please?
/data1 is a mountpoint located most likely on the partition "/". It means that it is just a part of "/" and as such can be written. Now if one mounts another partition on the mountpount, the information that is stored under the mountpoint gets hidden by the newly mounted partition. Nothing magic, I would say. It is a nice way to get "/" full...., when you expect a big sized partition to be mounted on /data1 and it is not there. If you now write lots of data to /data1, it is written to the partition holding "/", which is most often not so big... -- Richard Bos Without a home the journey is endless