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Ive mounted a filesystem in two different places and it worked. Why?

April 26, 2017different filesystem mounted worked

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Ive mounted a filesystem in two different places and it worked. Why?

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• (AV, paraphrased by William Stearns)Because you’ve asked the kernel to do that. Yes, it works. No, it’s not a bug. To unmount it from either mountpoint, simply run umount . Repeat for each mountpoint on which you do not wish the filesystem mounted.