From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Guy Waugh Subject: How to access contents of directory underneath mounted volume? Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:32:58 +1000 Message-ID: <48B35D4A.2040200@scu.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org Hello, On a RHEL4 host, I have a mountpoint, /thing, with a SAN volume mounted at this mountpoint. The local volume that contains the mountpoint (i.e. the volume that is mounted at /) is nearly full, and I'm suspecting it is because there are files on the local volume in the /thing directory. Of course, I can't get to the /thing directory by normal means (at least AFAIK), because there is currently a volume mounted at that mountpoint. Does anyone know if it possible to access (i.e. see and delete) the files in the /thing directory without having to umount the SAN volume that is mounted at /thing? Thanks, Guy.