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Date:      Sun, 16 Jul 2000 16:22:15 -0700
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net>
To:        Rick Hamell <hamellr@aracnet.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Disk Space Usage
Message-ID:  <20000716162214.B225@pool0158.cvx21-bradley.dialup.e>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0007161531150.13770-100000@shell1.aracnet.com>; from hamellr@aracnet.com on Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 03:34:54PM -0700
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.21.0007161531150.13770-100000@shell1.aracnet.com>

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On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 03:34:54PM -0700, Rick Hamell wrote:
> 
> 	Ok this question is meant mostly clarify in my mind how this
> works. Say I have an 8 gig and a 13 gig drive. I mount /usr on the 8 gig,
> along with /, /var, /tmp, etc. I then mount /home on the 13 gig drive. How
> are files handled if I write into /home? Is based upon which drive has the
> most free room? Or does it try to fill up the 8 gig drive first? Assuming
> these are IDE drives, does it matter which controller and position they're
> in (slave/mater.) Thanks in advance!

Uhh, hmmm? If you have a filesystem mounted at /home and you write
files to that filesystem... The files get written to that filesystem,
to the disk that it is on.

Am I missing something?
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@alum.mit.edu


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