Re: A simple question about mount command

[ABrady <xunil kc rr com>]

On Sun, 3 Nov 2002 12:22:06 +0100 (CET)
linux power <linuxpower2002 yahoo no> wrote:

> Yes u must have space enough on you lin part.

Please explain how a PARTITION mounted in a DIRECTORY takes up space on
the drive or partition that contains the mount point. I don't believe
I've quite heard that. And that would mean this can't work:

bash-2.05b$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2             3.0G  860M  1.9G  30% /
/dev/hda1             195M   17M  167M  10% /boot
/dev/hdb1             3.0G  184M  2.6G   7% /var
/dev/hdb4             6.4G  963M  5.1G  16% /files
/dev/hda9             3.9G  2.1G  1.7G  55% /hd2
/dev/hda8             3.0G  762M  2.0G  27% /home
none                  314M     0  314M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/hdb3             6.4G  616M  5.4G  10% /rpm
/dev/hda7             6.9G  730M  5.8G  11% /iso
/dev/hda3             4.9G  2.5G  2.1G  53% /usr
/dev/hdb2             2.0G   89M  1.7G   5% /usr/local
/dev/hda5             3.9G  1.5G  2.2G  40% /usr/share
/dev/hda10             11G  1.8G  8.2G  18% /store

Obviously '/' isn't large enough to hold '/usr' under your claim, let
alone all of the others I have as subdirectories to it.

No, the real answer is, a partition that is mounted under a directory,
such as '/mnt/vfat' or '/vfat' takes no room away from any other
partition.

>  --- Manuel Tejada <mantemu terra com pe> skrev: > Hi
> > I am new in Linux area.
> > I have a single disk. In the primary partition
> > Window ME. In an extended
> > partition(RedHat 7.3 in a logical partition and
> > Fat32 in another logical
> > partition).
> > My question is: To mount the partition vfat(Windows
> > ME or logical partition
> > fat32) in Linux, Do I need to make room of the same
> > size in Linux partition?
> > I hesitate to mount vfat partition because either
> > one (Windows ME or logical
> > fat 32) is larger then my Linux partition.
> > Any comment will be accepted.
> > 
> > Manuel
> > 
> > 
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