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Homework and Emergencies Emergency UNIX and Linux Support Something is filling hard disk on its own. Post 302448615 by methyl on Thursday 26th of August 2010 12:17:30 PM
Old 08-26-2010
Well I have never seen a unix or Linux behave like this.
There is a long-standing unix quirk where it was possible to mount on top of a directory which contained files and thus hide the underlying files.
In this case the O/S appears to have prevented the problem by changing the mountpoint on the fly (though I have no proof of this).

An earlier poster thought this was OS/X and there are clues that this is an Apple Mac of some sort.
What Operating System and version is this?
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CONVMVFS(1)						      General Commands Manual						       CONVMVFS(1)

NAME
convmvfs - utility that mirrors a whole filesystem tree from one charset to another. SYNOPSIS
convmvfs mountpoint [ options ] DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the convmvfs command. convmvfs is a FUSE (File System in Userspace) utility that transparently mirrors a filesystem tree converting the filenames from one charset to another on the fly. Only the names of files and directories are converted, the file content remains intact. The mirrored tree is mounted at the given mountpoint. OPTIONS
General options -o opt[,opt...] mount options -h, --help print help -V, --version print version -h, --help show summary of options FUSE options -d, -o debug enable debug output (implies -f) -f foreground operation -s disable multi-threaded operation -o Mount options are specified with a -o flag followed by a comma separated list of options. The following options are recognized: allow_other allow access to other users allow_root allow access to root nonempty allow mounts over non-empty file/dir default_permissions enable permission checking by kernel fsname=NAME set filesystem name large_read issue large read requests (2.4 only) max_read=N set maximum size of read requests hard_remove immediate removal (don't hide files) use_ino let filesystem set inode numbers readdir_ino try to fill in d_ino in readdir direct_io use direct I/O kernel_cache cache files in kernel umask=M set file permissions (octal) uid=N set file owner gid=N set file group entry_timeout=T cache timeout for names (1.0s) negative_timeout=T cache timeout for deleted names (0.0s) attr_timeout=T cache timeout for attributes (1.0s) srcdir=PATH which directory to convert icharset=CHARSET charset used in srcdir ocharset=CHARSET charset used in mounted filesystem NOTES
If you use a normal user account to mount the file system be sure to have r/w permissions to /dev/fuse. Use iconv --list to see which charsets are supported. To allow other users to access the mount point use allow_other option. IMPORTANT: if the mount point and srcdir point at the same directory, readdir call will enter a dead loop. BE SURE TO AVOID THIS SITUA- TION! SAMPLE USE
to mount: $ convmvfs /ftp/pub_gbk -o srcdir=/ftp/pub,icharset=utf8,ocharset=gbk to unmount: $ fusermount -u /ftp/pub_gbk SEE ALSO
fusermount(1), mount(8) AUTHOR
convmvfs was written by Z.C. Miao <hellwolf.misty@gmail.com>. This manual page was written by Stanislav Maslovski <stanislav.maslovski@gmail.com>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). October 3, 2007 CONVMVFS(1)
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