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I have 10 unix servers and in that /home is common in all the unix servers and any update in /home of any server is getting reflected in all the servers.

How is this done? and also please let me know how to find out the mount point of /home in this case?

voretaq7
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Look at the /etc/fstab file. This contains information on all the mount points that the system mounts automatically.

One line will almost certainly refer to /home and this is the one you will look for. It will probably look something like this:

203.0.113.240:/export/home  /home   nfs     rw,nosuid,nodev     0 0

In this case we see from the third field that it is an NFS mount. Your file will tell you exactly what is going on in your case.

Michael Hampton
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    If you can't find the according lines in `/etc/fstab` it's also possible that your homes get mounted via automount. if you run this as root `mount | grep home` you should see all the currently mounted filesystems that have `home` in their path. by doing `ps axu | grep automount` you should see if there is an automount daemon running – replay Feb 21 '13 at 07:31
  • There are other "network file system" or "distributed filesystem" possibilities too (AFS, SSHFS, etc.) – voretaq7 Feb 21 '13 at 20:14
  • Maybe he'll eventually come back and tell us all what he found. – Michael Hampton Feb 21 '13 at 20:15