Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 08:31:27 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org> To: "Jay O'Brien" <jayobrien@att.net> Cc: FreeBSD - questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: mount hides underlying files Message-ID: <20041112082812.Q66644@frambozen.monochrome.org> In-Reply-To: <419449CF.5050509@att.net> References: <419449CF.5050509@att.net>
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On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Jay O'Brien wrote: > If I mkdir /test and then place files in /test, those files > are no longer visible when I use /test as a mount point. The > files become visible again when I unmount the device. > > I have read documentation explaining this phenomenon, and I > would like to review that documentation again. Is it in the > handbook? Yes. There is a discussion of this at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disk-organization.html Also see the following page. -- Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging <|> ]
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