[linux-audio-user] Re: ext3 filesystem

[Jan Depner]

If you fill a directory (mount point) with data and then mount an NFS or
SAMBA file system on it the space you use does not show up in a du
listing but does show up as "used" in df.  As an example, if you make a
mount point /data (not a unique partition but part of /) and drop 10 GB
into it, then mount fred:/whatever on /data, if fred:/whatever only has
1 GB in it that's all you'll see with a du -sh /data command but the
10GB is still used and takes 10 GB from your / filesystem.  To make sure
you haven't done this, unmount all NFS and SAMBA filesystems then check
your filesystem sizes.

Jan


On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 23:39, Robert Epprecht wrote:
> Andrew Burgess <aab at cichlid.com> writes:
> 
> > One thing that fooled my once was mounting over a non-empty
> > directory.
> 
> What happens if you do so?
> 
> Robert