* Mark Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030310 10:06]: > A little background info: > > the dir's /mnt/arc, /mnt/arc_2, and /mnt/mp3 are shared over nfs and > samba. while I don't have any trouble RW to ?mnt/arc, /mnt/arc_2 there > were some problems with /mnt/mp3. It would only allow R access to the > filesystem. Until yesterday when I shut down nfs and samba, umounted > /mnt/mp3 and then chown'd /mnt/mp3 to user.root, and then chmod'd it to > 777. Once that was done I was able to write to that partition from the > client machines over nfs and samba, but I suspect that it was at that > time when "/" began to be 100% full. > > whats up with that?
A little more explanation may help. It is important to note that unless something is mounted on them, the typical directories under /mnt are just plain directories, usually empty. When you mount something there, if anything was IN those directories, it will be temporarily inaccessible, replaced in the tree by whatever you mounted there. When you unmount them, the original contents show up again. It, of course, takes space in the real directory, and /mnt is not usually on its own partition, so it is part of root, or /. When you DO find some actual files in /mnt, it is usually because someone copied something there, thinking they were copying to a removable block device, like a floppy or other storage device. -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior College | |:' corozal.com corozal.bz Corozal Town, Belize | /' chetumal.com & linux.bz Reg. Linux user #151611 |_/ Network, PHP, Perl, HTML
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