Centos spake the following on 9/7/2007 1:38 PM: > I have another question. > if I mount a filesystem on root partition, > is inodes on mounted file system is going to be added to root inodes ? > > thanks for help No. The inodes are part of the underlying partition, and it doesn't matter how many filesystems are nested or how deep. If you have say a var partition under the root partition, and you use all the inodes in the var partition, you can still add files to the rest of the root partition. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!