Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 21:11:46 -0400 From: Andrew Lankford <arlankfo@mindspring.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re:funky, this Message-ID: <200108200111.VAA08797@barry.mail.mindspring.net>
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Aha! (bops self on forehead) All those files (er...directories) are all mount points. I went into single user mode, umounted all the partitions except for /, and I noticed that each empty mount point did in fact have a unique inode (and it wasn't 2). I also noticed that mnt2 and mnt3 are both have the same inode after a dos partition is mounted to each one while the system boots up. But I notice that proc and usr have the same inode even though they are different file systems. So I guess my question is now just simply this: why exactly do some mount points share the same inode and some share a different one? Does it have to do with the order in which they were mounted? >Hey, I noticed that when I invoke the command >ls -iCF / >I get this: > 371 COPYRIGHT> 304 kernel*>> 2 proc/ > 11787 bin/>> 372 kernel.GENERIC*> 11883 root/ > 36 boot/>> 350 kernel.old*> 294 sbin/ > 11785 cdrom/>> 11882 mnt/>> 11777 stand/ > 375 compat@>>469472 mnt2/>> 370 sys@ > 5888 dev/>>469472 mnt3/>> 2 tmp/ > 28 etc/>> 154 modules/>> 2 usr/ > 384 home@>> 11897 modules.old/> 2 var/ >Now, as I read the ls man page, the -i option should list the inode >of each file to the left of that file. All well and good. But >aren't all truly unique files (i.e. no hard links) in a file system >supposed to have unique inodes, even if the files in question are >directories (i.e. just special files ) ? The tmp, usr, proc, and >var directories seem to be behaving like unique directories as they >should be, and mnt2 isn't mounted to the same file system as mnt3, >certainly. So what gives? >I'm scratching my head anyway. Is there a short answer to this puzzle? >Andrew Lankford To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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