Stephen Gran on 10 Jan 2007 18:23:32 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] where do dey go?


On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 07:07:16PM -0500, jeff said:
> Apparently a USB hd `became unattached' yesterday. I copied some files 
> to it.  When I fired up today, it was still unattached, but the files 
> appeared at the mount point. When I got it reattached, POOF, they were gone.
> 
> Does this mean that they got copied to /mount/dir instead of /dev/sda1? 

Most likely.

>  Where, physically, is /mount/dir when it's not attached to /dev/sda1?

Underneath /mount/ - that is, whatever disk and file system /mount/
is part of.  On the system I'm typing this on, that's /, which is
physically a sata disk.
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