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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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