slave drive mounting where?

[Chris Aitken]

Chris Aitken wrote:
> Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>>
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>> That should mount the drive temporarily as /mnt, move the files that
>> should have gone to it, onto it, then unmount it, then append a line to
>> /etc/fstab for the drive, then mount all filesystems listed in fstab.
>>   
> Everything worked just like you said it would. I checked /etc/fstab - 
> it's fine. Thanks - you gave me 4% of my primary hard disk space back.
And, what else I like about your commands is that it I now have what was 
in the unmounted /bckupdrv (effectively just a directory under /) /plus/ 
the mounted /bckupdrv files (the .ogg's). Funny that there was anything 
on the mounted (dev/sdb1) version of /bckupdrv at all - I know I did a 
backup (scp) of files from another computer to that drive a while back - 
the files must have backed up to the /mounted/ version (/dev/sdb1 on 
/bckupdrv) instead of the unmounted version (/bckupdrv). Why would an 
scp command send files from another computer to /dev/sdb1 on /bckupdrv, 
yet simply saving files on the computer locally (from, say, Sound 
Juicer) send them only to /bckupdrv (/dev/sda1 or whatever)? I would 
guess the answer is that the scp command mounts drives if they aren't 
already mounted. However, how would it even know that I want /dev/sdb1 
mounted on /bckupdrv if there was no record of it in /etc/fstab? Does 
scp read minds? Or maybe what I was calling the "gui partitioner" left 
my mount desire somewhere that only scp can find it. Or maybe those 
files are old ones (I'll check) that were there all along when I was 
trying to restore that drive a few weeks ago. But then why aren't the 
old .ogg's still on them?

The troubleshoot is over so I guess I don't need answers to these 
questions that bad. Interesting though...

Chris

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