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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 13:37:50 GMT   
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   Chris Fasano the Monkey was never naughty:   
   >   
   > Is there a difference between these two tasks:   
   >   
   > 1. mkdir under /home   
   > 2. add files to /home/newdirectory   
   > 3. mount /dev/hdb to /home/newdirectory   
   >   
   > and   
   >   
   > 1. mkdir under /home   
   > 2. mount /dev/hdb to /home/newdirectory   
   > 3. add files to /home/newdirectory   
      
   Yes there is.   
      
   in the first case, you create a directory and put files in it. When you   
   then mount hdb on this mountpoint, files which already exist in that   
   folder become invisible to the filesystem (they're still there, on hda,   
   but as the kernel is looking in hdb for contents, they don't display).   
      
   In the second, you're mounting the disk on an empty directory so newly   
   created files are stored on hdb.   
      
   Chobos   
      
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