Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> schrieb am 01.10.2009 19:35:20: > At Thu, 01 Oct 2009 10:13:26 -0400 CentOS mailing list > <centos at centos.org> wrote: > > > > > Peter Kjellstrom wrote: > > > One possibility is that the missing data is hiding under a > mount-point in the > > > normal case. > > > > > > /Peter > > > > So what you're saying is something is mounted on to a directory that had > > data in it before the mount. How do I see the data being hidden without > > unmounting the point? > > You can't. You must unmount. You should be able to do this from > single user mode if the file system cannot be unmounted under multiuser > mode (eg /usr, /var, etc.). Usually other mount points can be > unmounted, but depends on what is running on the system at the time. > Unmounting /home would require that you kick all users off for example, > unmounting /var/www would require stopping apache, etc. 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. Frank.