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RE: Mounting issues



On Thu, 5 Nov 1998, Oron Peled wrote:

> a. You don't mount A DIRECTORY you mount a block device UNDER
>    A DIRECTORY.
> b. Mounting devices under a non-empty directory hides the content
>    of that directory. It will be accessible again after a umount.
>    Therefore, it is possible but not wise (If you need an example
>    Think about mounting something under important directories like
>    /dev, /etc,... DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME :-)

Actually DO try this at home. This is a proven way to have emergency
binaries in /usr/bin etc in the case where the real thing is to be mounted
and the mount fails for some reason.

Peter