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   From: jellybean stonerfish    
   Organization: jelco stoneware   
   Subject: Re: Question about mount command and location of files   
   Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu   
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   On Fri, 02 Mar 2007 13:23:43 +0000, Chris Fasano wrote:   
      
   >    
   > Thank you.  This explanation is (somewhat) what's causing my   
   > misunderstanding.  If files aren't physically moved by mounting, then if I   
   > create a directory under hda1 (home/newdirectory) the /newdirectory is   
   > physically located on hda.   
      
   Type mount   
      
   You will get something like this: (will be different on ubuntu)   
      
   /dev/hda1 on / type ext2 (rw)   
   proc on /proc type proc (rw)   
   sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)   
   /dev/hda2 on /home type ext2 (rw)   
   devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=4,mode=620)   
   shm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)   
      
   In this case when I look at / I am reading files off of /dev/hda1   
   When I am looking at /home I am reading files off of /dev/hda2   
   The other mount points are virtual, they exist in memory.   
      
   If I unmount /dev/hda2 then /home is an empty folder on hda1.   
      
   If I add files to /home when /dev/hda2 is unmounted then they are on   
   /dev/hda1/   
   If I then mount /dev/hda2 on /home these files are inaccesable and I see   
   the files on /dev/hda2 on /home.   
      
   If I then unmount /dev/hda2 again, I can see the /home files on /dev/hda1   
      
   Did that make it more unclear?   
      
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