Odd mount on /mnt problem

[Nils Kassube]

Karl F. Larsen wrote:
>     I was just looking for the pictures on a memory chip and when I
> looked at /mnt I discovered THIS computer is mounted at /mnt! Here is
> what I see:
>
> karl at karl-hardy:/mnt$ ls
> bin   cdrom  etc   initrd.img      vmlinuz
> boot  dev    home  initrd.img.old  vmlinuz.old
> karl at karl-hardy:/mnt$ cd
> karl at karl-hardy:~$ df -h
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda6             7.4G  5.0G  2.1G  71% /
> varrun                506M  116K  505M   1% /var/run
> varlock               506M     0  506M   0% /var/lock
> udev                  506M   84K  505M   1% /dev
> devshm                506M   60K  505M   1% /dev/shm
> lrm                   506M   39M  467M   8%
> /lib/modules/2.6.24-23-generic/volatile
> /dev/sda5              19G  8.8G  8.7G  51% /home
> gvfs-fuse-daemon      7.4G  5.0G  2.1G  71% /home/karl/.gvfs
> karl at karl-hardy:~$

I suppose nothing is mounted at /mnt but there are files in the /mnt 
directory. Probably you have copied something to the /mnt directory 
when you wanted to copy it to some other location or to a mounted file 
system which was in fact not mounted.


Nils