Ok. This is one that has had me wondering for a while now: Lets say I have a server that exports /home via NFS. And I have clients that mount /home via NFS from that server. When I go thru the initial setup, and create a user, though, the '/home' that is used is not (yet) the one on the server, rather it is under '/' on the clients main hard drive. If I log in to the client as an ordinary user immediately after setup, I see ~/ as it is, freshly created on the client, w/ the various basic files like .bashrc, etc. rather than the files that are on the server ~/ for the same user. Correct?
Now for the question part. Now, I log out as the user, and log in as root, and mount the servers /home directory as /home on the client. So now when I log in as a user on either machine, I have a persistent view of my home directory irregardless of which box I'm on. *SO WHAT HAPPENED TO THE FILES THAT WERE THERE BEFORE?* The ones that were created when the user account was set up, before /home was mounted via NFS. If I unmount /home, they appear to still be there, untouched. How long will they stay this way? If /home is mounted, how else would you get to these files, if you needed to clear out the disk space, for instance? Just a question thats been bugging me for a while. TIA, Monte -- All right, breaks over. Back on your heads!! _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
