Re: [PLUG] where do dey go?

["Steve Morgan" <stevem.firefly@gmail.com>]

The files are still there.  The files are physically located in /mount/dir but you need to unattach your USB drive.  When you mount a device to /mount/dir when there already exists files there (/mount/dir/files*), the new mount supercedes the physically located files. They "disappear" and become inaccesible. When you unattach the device from /mount/dir, those original files then become accessible once again.

Regards,

Steve Morgan

On 1/6/07, jeff <jeffv@op.net> wrote:

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




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