Re: What am I doing wrong with MOUNT?

From: James Alexander Cook (james.cook_at_utoronto.ca)
Date: 02/28/05

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    Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 09:24:48 -0500
To: Gerald Lightsey <glightsey1@cox.net>

    On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 12:43:44AM -0800, Gerald Lightsey wrote:

    <snip>
    > I mounted the new drive 1 to a temporary mount point and used the cp command
    > to copy each directory in /var to the drive. I looked in all the new/old
    > directories at the temporary mount point using ls -F and everything appeared
    > to be there at the file level. I used the umount command to unmount the new
    > drive/partition from the temporary mount point and remounted it at /var. I

    sysinstall usually gives /var its own partition when you install FreeBSD, so
    you probably already had something mounted on /var before you started moving
    things over. Try unmounting the thing that was previously mounted on /var
    before mounting the new disk; I'm not sure how mount deals with more than one
    filesystem mounted at the same place. If that doesn't work, send the output of
    ``df'' to the list after unmounting the old /var and mounting the new one.

    Oh, and don't forget to update /etc/fstab once you get everything working.

    > opened MySQL and created the named database I wanted and again started to
    > collect the data from the CD by directing the .SQL file data to my database.
    > Again, just like it did originally, after several minutes of creating tables
    > the system reported that it had run out of space.
    >
    > My surprise is that every indication I get after I regain control of the
    > system is that the database tables are being built within the original /var
    > directory structure rather than the 120gb drive mounted on the /var
    > mountpoint. If I use the df command while drive 1 is mounted it shows that
    > /var on disk 0 is full and /var on disk 1 just has whatever I copied onto
    > the drive when it was mounted to a temporary mount point. Also by
    > experimentation/confirmation I find that simply creating a couple of new
    > databases within MySQL while drive 1 is mounted on /var shows that the
    > databases have been created on the original /var on disk 0 as directories
    > after disk 1 is unmounted.
    >
    > What am I doing wrong or what don't I understand about a drive being mounted
    > on /var where data is being written underneath it to the original
    > /var/db/mysql/mydatabasename on disk 0 rather than onto the mounted disk 1?
    >
    > Thanks,
    >
    > Gerald
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