RE: Mounting Drive Partitions

["Buck" <RHList towncorp net>]

Thank you very much. 

It sounds like a little script for replacing the drive and I am set to
go.

Thanks again

Buck
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From: redhat-list-admin redhat com [mailto:redhat-list-admin redhat com]
On Behalf Of Alan Hodgson
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 11:05 PM
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Subject: Re: Mounting Drive Partitions


On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 10:52:58PM -0400, Buck wrote:
> Now, if Linux allows me to mount Drive 0 Part 4 as /private  and Drive

> 0 part 4 as /backup during normal use, but then allows me to 
> disconnect drive 1 and replace it with drive 1 and mount part 4 as 
> /private and mount part 4 of the replacement drive as /backup without 
> crashing when I do this, all is well.  But if the partitions have to 
> be assigned a directory name when they are formatted, I may be out of 
> luck.

Honestly I didn't quite get what you're trying to do, but you can easily
mount different filesystems on the same mount point at different times.
The "volume label", which i think what you're trying to say with
"directory name", is not a necessary part of the mount process and you
can have multiple filesystems with the same volume name in the machine
with no problems if you aren't mounting by volume name.

Ie. mount /dev/hda4 /private ; do work ; umount /private ; 
mount /dev/hdb /private ; do other work ; etc

You can also use the tune2fs command to change the volume name on an
ext2 or ext3 filesystem if you want.


> Will Linux allow me to do this for backup or will I need to find 
> another way to clone my drives?

Linux will allow you to mount and unmount filesystems at will assuming
there are no open files on the filesystem, regardless of the properties
of the filesystem.

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