-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Monte Milanuk wrote:
>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?* Ah, grasshopper, you've discovered one of the seventh wonders of the world -- the 'masking' effect when one filesystem is mounted on top of another. :-) You can get the same effect with any mount, local or nfs. If you fill /usr/local with stuff, then mount some other partition on /usr/local, you now have access to the stuff on the new partition -- but the stuff on the "real" /usr/local is hidden, inaccessible to you or anyone else until you umount the mounted filesystem. It's still there, obviously, as you saw ... there's just no access path to it. So if you want, as I do, access to a skeleton home directory on the client, while still having access to your data on a /home server, you need to be more creative. I mount atlantis:/home on littleblue:/mnt/home, and then put a symlink to /mnt/home/dtalk at ~/atlantis on littleblue. I can then get to my data via that link, without obscuring the local files and configurations on the client. Does that help? - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp - -- http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/pale_blue_dot.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA/AwUBPHWDcb9BpdPKTBGtEQK70QCfbo3elPtcG/q9a3trbTL45Mc4+CgAoNSj 33DkmSunNe6ahfFqYeWkiHWN =A5cP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
