[ILUG] HD question

[Stephen Shirley]

On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Mark Kilmartin wrote:

> A quick question that somebody may be able to answer.
>
> If I had a filesystem that contained a directory.
> That directory had stuff in it.
>
> If I then mount another partition using the original directory as a mount
> point is there anyway that I could delete the contents of that directory
> without unmount the new partition??
>
No. To all intents and purposes that data does not exsist as long as it is
mounted over.

> I know this probably sounds pretty stupid but there is a good reason
> really.
>
Won't you please tell? Pretty please?

Steve

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