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Date:      Mon, 15 Mar 2021 16:28:57 -0400
From:      Waitman Gobble <gobble.wa@gmail.com>
To:        FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Disappearing files in FreeBSD 13.0-R2
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On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 2:12 PM Shamim Shahriar
<shamim.shahriar@gmail.com> wrote:
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>
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> On Mon, 15 Mar 2021, 15:35 Waitman Gobble, <gobble.wa@gmail.com> wrote
>>
>>
>> So in summary, for some reason there was a /home directory. and if you
>> create a pool named "home" it does magic stuff like it knows it's
>> supposed to be home i guess. If /home is a directory then it acts
>> crazy. Deleting /home makes it sane again.
>>
>
> It is not magic. Any newly created pool, unless otherwise instructed, mounts the initial dataset to /<poolName>
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> So, zpool create xyz creates /xyz and mounts the initial dataset there.
>
> Hope that helps.


I agree, it's not magic. Somehow I messed something up and it is
fixed. It seemed to be behaving strangely.

-- 
Waitman Gobble



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