Re: A question prompted by HELP!!! - Problems with my root
> Hi.
>
> Some suggestions already presented:
> Is the file system mounted read-only?
> Is any space left on the partition?
>
> This last question makes me wonder about another potential problem.
>
> How does the system handle this scenario:
> Suppose you have / and /usr on different partitions.
> Before the system mount the usr partition it creates some files under the
> directory /usr, and then mounts the usr partition on /usr.
> I read in a HOWTO, I think, that you are not able to get to the files that was
> created under /usr before you mounted the usr partition. Too bad but makes
> sense.
However, they will be accessible under /usr after you unmount the usr
partition.
It is feasable to have a few files under /usr (say, in /usr/bin or
/usr/lib) on the root file system so that you can use them when /usr is
unmounted. They will be inaccessible once /usr is mounted, however.
(I can even see how that might be useful for security: have certain
files accessible only when /home is not mounted, for instance)
>
> But do these files add to the sum that df show?
Yes. df doesn't report blocks accessible in on a device, but rather
the blocks the filesystem things are available/not available. Space is
still allocated for files hidden under a mount point, so df should and
does report that.
> Depending on the answer to that question, is there any other commands that
> might have the wrong idea of space or number of files on a partition.
Few commands care directly about partitions, and when you want
statistics on a file system, you usually want the figures reported by
df. I can see that du might report "erroneous" data, but it shouldn't
be a problem.
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> Hidden,
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> MartinS
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