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Subject: Re: Question about mount command and location of files
Date: 2 Mar 2007 04:26:13 GMT
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On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 18:41:30 -0800, jellybean stonerfish wrote:

> 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
>

Mounting does not shift the files (phyisically). It just allows them to be
read. Remember you can mount a directory which is anywhere on the network.
Also many people may have that directory mounted and are reading/writing
to it.
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