Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 17:11:43 +0100 From: Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> To: Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stupid question about mountpoints and fstab Message-ID: <44E1F23F.5040304@dial.pipex.com> In-Reply-To: <20060815154143.GN69670@ns2.wananchi.com> References: <20060815154143.GN69670@ns2.wananchi.com>
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Odhiambo Washington wrote: >Hello people, > >I have never figured out something like this can be done, but today I >see it. We have purchased s co-lo server. They have installed it and >given me access to "do whatever you want with the box", but their >fstab has left me thirsty, wanting to know what's going on ... > > >sp2817a# less /etc/fstab ># Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# >/dev/ad0s1g /home ufs rw 2 2 >/dev/ad0s2 /home ufs rw 2 2 > > >sp2817a# df -h >Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on >/dev/ad0s1g 15G 22K 13G 0% /home >/dev/ad0s2 72G 22K 66G 0% /home > > >Now, if someone can explain to me what the hell is being done with >/home in this server... ;) > > In short, IMHO, they've cocked it up! It's quite possible to mount two different (or even the same) disk partitions on the same mountpoint. It would certainly be a valid thing to do if the union flag were specified. Otherwise, I strongly suspect that only the last disk mounted will be written to, but you could create a file under /home and see what grows with df. I suggest pointing ad0s1g at /home2 (which you'll have to create) then umount /home twice, then mount /home and /home2. Or, instead of /home2 perhaps /usr/local, but you'd have to go via a temporary mountpoint and copy existing /usr/local to it. Finally (or do nothing but) complain! I've seen worse. The last (Linux) colo we got, had 60+Gb for /var and 5Gb for /home - completely backwards! --Alex
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