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From: Sir Chewbury Gubbins 
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu
Subject: Re: Question about mount command and location of files
Date: 2 Mar 2007 13:36:20 GMT
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Chris Fasano the Monkey was never naughty:
>
> So why would any files now created under /newdirectory be physically
> located on hdb just because I mounted /dev/hdb1 to /home/newdirectory,
> since as you say "mounting does not shift files physically?"

Let's use an analogy :)

You have a cracker, a slice of cheese and a pickle.

You want to mount the cheese on the cracker. You put the pickle on top
of the cheese.

Although the pickle is physically located on the cheese, it's accessible
from the cracker :)

That help?

Don't think of your disks as disks. Try and think of the filesystem as a
whole. 

/dev/hda might be your root disk - 

/ (hda)
/etc
/home
/home/extrastuff (hdb)
/usr
/var 

Cheers

Choobs

-- 
Sir Chewbury Gubbins 
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Abu the monkey was never naughty.
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