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Date:      Fri, 12 Nov 2004 08:31:27 -0500 (EST)
From:      Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org>
To:        "Jay O'Brien" <jayobrien@att.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD - questions <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: mount hides underlying files
Message-ID:  <20041112082812.Q66644@frambozen.monochrome.org>
In-Reply-To: <419449CF.5050509@att.net>
References:  <419449CF.5050509@att.net>

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On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Jay O'Brien wrote:

> If I mkdir /test and then place files in /test, those files
> are no longer visible when I use /test as a mount point. The
> files become visible again when I unmount the device.
>
> I have read documentation explaining this phenomenon, and I
> would like to review that documentation again. Is it in the
> handbook?

Yes. There is a discussion of this at

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disk-organization.html

Also see the following page.

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Chris Hill               chris@monochrome.org
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