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[ILUG] HD question

[ILUG] HD question

bscanlan at irish-times.com bscanlan at irish-times.com
Thu Mar 22 16:20:11 GMT 2001


On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 03:34:57PM +0000, David Murphy wrote:
> > If I then mount another partition using the original directory as a
> > mount point is there anyway that I could delete the contents of that
> > directory without unmount the new partition??
> 
> No.

Hmm, I bet fsdb could do it in Solaris, an I reckon debugfs 
could do it in Linux. The "no" answer was right to give
to this chap all the same, I wouldn't reccomend fsdb
to many. :)

-- 
Brian Scanlan, Systems Administrator.
Irish Times New Media - http://www.ireland.com




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