Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 09:24:48 -0500 From: James Alexander Cook <james.cook@utoronto.ca> To: Gerald Lightsey <glightsey1@cox.net> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What am I doing wrong with MOUNT? Message-ID: <20050228142448.GA73739@angel.falsifian.afraid.org> In-Reply-To: <20050228084358.QKAL13819.fed1rmmtao12.cox.net@geraldligh> References: <20050228084358.QKAL13819.fed1rmmtao12.cox.net@geraldligh>
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On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 12:43:44AM -0800, Gerald Lightsey wrote: <snip> > I mounted the new drive 1 to a temporary mount point and used the cp command > to copy each directory in /var to the drive. I looked in all the new/old > directories at the temporary mount point using ls -F and everything appeared > to be there at the file level. I used the umount command to unmount the new > drive/partition from the temporary mount point and remounted it at /var. I sysinstall usually gives /var its own partition when you install FreeBSD, so you probably already had something mounted on /var before you started moving things over. Try unmounting the thing that was previously mounted on /var before mounting the new disk; I'm not sure how mount deals with more than one filesystem mounted at the same place. If that doesn't work, send the output of ``df'' to the list after unmounting the old /var and mounting the new one. Oh, and don't forget to update /etc/fstab once you get everything working. > opened MySQL and created the named database I wanted and again started to > collect the data from the CD by directing the .SQL file data to my database. > Again, just like it did originally, after several minutes of creating tables > the system reported that it had run out of space. > > My surprise is that every indication I get after I regain control of the > system is that the database tables are being built within the original /var > directory structure rather than the 120gb drive mounted on the /var > mountpoint. If I use the df command while drive 1 is mounted it shows that > /var on disk 0 is full and /var on disk 1 just has whatever I copied onto > the drive when it was mounted to a temporary mount point. Also by > experimentation/confirmation I find that simply creating a couple of new > databases within MySQL while drive 1 is mounted on /var shows that the > databases have been created on the original /var on disk 0 as directories > after disk 1 is unmounted. > > What am I doing wrong or what don't I understand about a drive being mounted > on /var where data is being written underneath it to the original > /var/db/mysql/mydatabasename on disk 0 rather than onto the mounted disk 1? > > Thanks, > > Gerald
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