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Re: which files took the space



On Friday 04 March 2016 03:39:03 jdd wrote:

> Le 04/03/2016 08:38, tomas@tuxteam.de a écrit :
> > If memory serves, long, long time ago, "mount" (the system call)
> > refused to comply unless the directory was empty (kernel 2.6.mumble;
> > so long ago. Expect bit flips and glitches in my wetware, yadda).
>
> if it existed, it's much older than that, never seen it since 1997...

Me either, and I go back to '97 myself in linux usage.

> man mount:
>
> This  tells  the  kernel  to attach the filesystem found on device
> (which is of type type) at the directory dir.  The previous contents
> (if any) and owner and mode of dir become  invisible,  and  as  long 
> as this  filesystem  remains mounted, the pathname dir refers to the
> root of the filesystem on device."
>
>
> jdd


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