Thanks a lot guys, for clearing a major part of the mystery
Yes, its the autofs which confounded us.
Any clue as to why this is done by autofs?
Although this problem did not affect my work directly, it
helped me learn a few new commands. Thanks to all of you.
Christopher Vasanth
-----Original Message-----
From: ambarish pathak [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 11:11 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [LIH] RH 6.2 - unusable /misc directory
sory abt the erlier mesage. i was too excited to tell u all abt the my
discoveries with diferent distros. :-))
later i ran "fuser" on /misc and found that "automounter" daemon was
using it. after doin a /etc/rc.d/init.d/autofs stop, i got the /misc
showin the corect size (1024, my cluster size being that).
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