Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!columbia!rutgers!umnd-cs!umn-cs!randy From: randy@umn-cs.UUCP (Randy Orrison) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Problem with "mount" Message-ID: <2128@umn-cs.UUCP> Date: Fri, 28-Aug-87 09:37:24 EDT Article-I.D.: umn-cs.2128 Posted: Fri Aug 28 09:37:24 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 30-Aug-87 05:54:15 EDT References: <4242@ncoast.UUCP> <271NU070156@NDSUVM1> <1418@galbp.LBP.HARRIS.COM> Reply-To: randy@umn-cs.UUCP (Randy Orrison) Organization: UofM Math Department Lines: 15 In article <1418@galbp.LBP.HARRIS.COM> bing@galbp.UUCP (Bing Bang) writes: >In article <271NU070156@NDSUVM1> NU070156@NDSUVM1.BITNET (Glen Overby) writes: >Am I missing something here? You do know that you can't mount anything to a >directory unless it is completely empty, don't you? Is this V7? I know this isn't true on the two Sys 5 systems I work on: In the root file system the directory /usr contains the directory tmp, for obvious reasons. This doesn't affect mounting things on /usr in any way. -randy -- Randy Orrison, University of Minnesota School of Mathematics UUCP: {ihnp4, seismo!rutgers!umnd-cs, sun}!umn-cs!randy ARPA: randy@ux.acss.umn.edu (Yes, these are three BITNET: randy@umnacvx different machines)