Re: mounting a fs in two places at once?

From: Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Date: Sun Jun 24 2001 - 21:35:03 EST


On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, Marty Leisner wrote:

> I just installed redhat 7.1 on a system.
>
> Cleaning up, a made a fs for home...(mounted on /mnt
> to write the stuff to it)
>
> Then I accidently mounted it on /home.
>
> So it was mounted on /home and /mnt at the same time.
> (I didn't bother going in to see what was there).

Same tree, obviously.

> Shouldn't this NOT happen?

Sigh... Guys, who maintains l-k FAQ?

Q: I've mounted filesystem in two different places and it worked. Why?
A: Because you've asked to do that. Yes, it works. No, it's not a bug.

Q: what should I do to unmount it?
A: umount <mountpoint>

Q: but that took care only of one of them. How can I deal with another?
A: umount <another_mountpoint>

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