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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers concept of mount point Post 302075964 by Vikas Sood on Wednesday 7th of June 2006 10:14:22 PM
Old 06-07-2006
concept of mount point

Hi All

I Know it is a really basic and stupid question perhaps...But I am going bonkers..

I have following valid paths in my unix system:

1. /opt/cdedev/informatica/InfSrv/app/bin
2. /vikas/cdedev/app

Both refer to the same physical location. So if I created one file 'test' in first
path, when i cd to /vikas/cdedev/app and do a ls -ltr, i see the 'test' file

When I do a df -k . on 1 and 2 above, i get the same mount point which is as follows:

/vikas/cdedev/app

Now, I am perhaps taking a long shot, but the most logical reasoning I can give myself is mount point is nothign but actual physical location in hard drive whereas directories are logical pointers to mount points. So 1 and 2 above are logical pointers to the same physical location. In other words, they point to the same mount point.

I might be way off. In any case, can somebody throw some light on following:

a. concept of mount point as well as Unix file system?

b. Is it possible to see which directories refer to one particular mount point by some unix command?

Appreciate it much.
 

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FS_RMMOUNT(1)						       AFS Command Reference						     FS_RMMOUNT(1)

NAME
fs_rmmount - Removes a mount point SYNOPSIS
fs rmmount -dir <directory>+ [-help] fs rm -d <directory>+ [-h] DESCRIPTION
The fs rmmount command removes the mount point named by the -dir argument from the file system. The corresponding volume remains on its host partition or partitions, but is inaccessible if there are no other mount points for it. OPTIONS
-dir <directory>+ Names the mount point to delete from the file system. The last element in the pathname must be an actual name, not a shorthand notation such as "dot" (".") or "dot dot" (".."). Specify the read/write path to the directory, to avoid the failure that results from attempting to delete a mount point from a read- only volume. By convention, the read/write path is indicated by placing a period before the cell name at the pathname's second level (for example, /afs/.abc.com). For further discussion of the concept of read/write and read-only paths through the filespace, see the fs mkmount reference page. -help Prints the online help for this command. All other valid options are ignored. EXAMPLES
The following command removes the mount points jones and terry from the current working directory (the /afs/abc.com/usr directory). % fs rmmount jones terry PRIVILEGE REQUIRED
The issuer must have the "d" (delete) permission on the ACL of the directory that houses each mount point. SEE ALSO
fs_lsmount(1), fs_mkmount(1) COPYRIGHT
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