| Art Alexion on 10 Jan 2007 18:28:43 -0000 |
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On Saturday 06 January 2007 19:07, jeff 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? Yes > Where, physically, is /mount/dir when it's not attached to /dev/sda1? on whatever partition /mount is. Mount points are real directories, capable of holding files themselves. Once you mount something on them, the mounted file system is accessable instead of the file system local to the mount point. (I'm not sure I am using the right terminology, but I hope I am getting the point across.) If you umount /dev/sda1, the files will still be there. You can move them to ~, then mount /dev/sda1, and then move them to where you originally wanted to put them. > If a man says something without his wife hearing it, is he still wrong? Potentially. If her sister tells her he said it. -- _____________________________________________________________ Art Alexion PGP fingerprint: 52A4 B10C AA73 096F A661 92D2 3B65 8EAC ACC5 BA7A Keyserver: hkp://subkeys.pgp.net The attachment - signature.asc - is my electronic signature; no need for alarm. Info @ http://mysite.verizon.net/art.alexion/encryption/signature.asc.what.html _____________________________________________________________ Attachment:
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