This is quite possible, and having just gone thru this recently a few weeks ago, I thought I post a warning here to hopefully save someone else from the brain-fart I suffered a few weeks ago. I needed to change the mount point permissions w/out umounting the filesystems in a few places, so I remounted / over /tmp/mnt (that was my brain fart, should have used /mnt/tmp). Did my thing, changed what I needed to and then got sidetracked on other things and never got around to umount'ing /tmp/mnt. Next day I started noticing weirdness, and then realized cron.daily fired off it's tmpwatch run and it happily started cleaning older things from /tmp/mnt/... :-( - Jerry Frank.Brodbeck at klingel.de wrote: > This is absolutely untested but it could work: mount / to /mnt and delete > the data from there. Dig into mount(8) and test this somewhere outside > the production area: > > --bind Remount a subtree somewhere else (so that its contents are > available in both places). See above. > > But again, this is untested and nothing more but a wild guess. > > >