Hi Gavin,
Sorry mate from what u have described below, the file systems in question
are definately not mounted! The reason you can however read/write to the
mount points is because they are normal directories.
For example
you have created a file system called /test and when you do a df /test does
not appear, you can however change directory into /test and create stuff to
your hearts content, what you are actually doing in this case is creating
files in the root file system.
If you were then to mount /test and changed directory into it, the stuff you
created earlier would not be there! Although that is not strictly true it is
but hidden because there is a file system mounted over the directory. If you
then unmounted it the stuff would reappear.
Hope that helps you understand how filesystems and mounts point, sort of
work, very basic of course
Jason
From: Gavin Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: [expert] volume not in /etc/fstab - mounts anyway??
Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 03:10:06 -0700
hi,
I just set up a couple of new scsi drives with diskdrake. I set up with
one
big partition each for testing.
I can use them - read/write files, etc. but something is wierd:
they mount on startup but there is no entry for them in /etc/fstab
df doesn't see them - it does list my hda paritions.
also the module that drives the card (aic7xxx.o) is not loaded.
#umount /test1 comes back with:
umount: /test1 : not mounted
how can I be using these volumes if they're not really mounted?!?
what the hell?
Gavin Clark
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