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From: jellybean stonerfish 
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Subject: Re: Question about mount command and location of files
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Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 18:41:30 -0800
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On Fri, 02 Mar 2007 01:56:25 +0000, Chris Fasano wrote:

> What confuses me about the mount command and file storage is this:
> 
> If I create a directory under my /home folder which is located on hda1,
> and then I mount /dev/hdb1 under that directory I just created,
> 
> and then I move files into that directory
> 
> are the files physically located on hda or hdb?

hdb.  if you unmount it and ls the folder it should be empty

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stonerfish

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