File System Question

[tmayo]

Thanks to the help of this forum, I got my second hard drive (hdb1) mounted and usable.

I have a question. I made a folder (FileFolder1) and mounted it. Mount is /media/hdb1/FileFolder1.

During this process I also created a folder called fbdrive1 (/media/hda5/fbdrive1)

I copied the hard drive from my Mac G5 to /media/hdb1/FileFolder1 (great, that is what I was trying to do from the start)

Here is the question
I can see the copyed files at /media/hdb1/FileFolder1 and I can also see them at /media/hda5/fbdrive1

Why is that?

[papetova]

Go into /media and run an ls -lah.

Where are they pointing? Same location?

[tmayo]

Go into /media and run an ls -lah.

Where are they pointing? Same location?

tmayo@FileBoy /media $ ls -lah
total 512
drwxr-xr-x 5 haldaemon root 152 Oct 14 20:59 .
drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 624 Oct 14 20:58 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 5 22:46 .keep
drwxr-xr-x 2 haldaemon haldaemon 48 Oct 14 20:59 cdrecorder
drwxr-xr-x 2 tmayo users 48 Oct 9 10:27 ext_disk
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 72 Oct 21 01:52 fbdrive1

Being new to this, I am not sure what to look for. This is the result of running ls -lah

[devils casper]

Execute this

df -h
sudo fdisk -l

Post output here.

[tmayo]

tmayo@FileBoy ~ $ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda5 19G 2.5G 17G 14% /
udev 251M 236K 251M 1% /dev
/dev/hda1 4.6G 133M 4.3G 3% /boot
/dev/hda6 42G 68M 42G 1% /home
/dev/hdb1 184G 18G 157G 10% /fbdrive1
none 251M 0 251M 0% /dev/shm
tmayo@FileBoy ~ $ sudo fdisk -l
Password:

Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 608 4883728+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 609 1824 9767520 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda3 1825 9729 63496912+ 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 1825 4256 19535008+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 4257 9729 43961841 83 Linux

Disk /dev/hdb: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 1 24321 195358401 83 Linux

[devils casper]

/dev/hdb1 184G 18G 157G 10% /fbdrive1

hdb1 is mounted at /fbdrive1 folder only. Did you edit /etc/fstab file?

[tmayo]

The only time I edited /etc/fstab was back when we where mounting /hdb1

[devils casper]

Everything looks OK now. hdb1 is mounted at one location only. If you added two entries of hdb1 in /etc/fstab file then it would create problems.