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| DATE | 2015-06-24 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] something strange a coworker did in fstab
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On 06/24/2015 01:25 PM, Paul Robert Marino wrote:
> hello every one
>
> one of my coworkers did something very odd in fstab it seam to be
> working but i have this nagging feeling about it and wanted to know if
> any one can think of a good reason other than the obvious ones not to
> do it.
>
> here is what he did he put entries in fstab to mount /dev/sdb1 on /srv
> and /db both set to mount on boot
> it seems to be working the only odd thing seems to be that df only
> shows the results for the first entry in mtab
>
> I seem to remember being told back in the 90's that it was a really
> bad idea but I cant remember why other than the obvious that its dam
> confusing and a symlink can serve the same effective function.
>
That is the file system? You should only be able to double mount with a
unified
file system. It won't be good for your symbolic links.
Ruben
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