A Curious Problem (seemingly resolved, thankfully, but still.....)

[Nathan Bahn]

On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Mark <mhullrich at gmail.com> wrote:
[...]

> A mount point is just a directory.  What M.S. was saying is that
> perhaps you wrote to the (mount point) directory without mounting the
> partition.  In that case, the mount point will be treated as a normal
> directory that can have files stored in it, like all directories can.
>
> However, when you mount a device to a mount point (directory),
> whatever was in that directory is hidden under whatever you mounted on
> top of it.
>
> E.g.:
>
> ~$ ls /boot
> config-2.6.9-89.EL
> config-2.6.9-89.ELlargesmp
> grub/
> initrd-2.6.9-89.EL.img
> initrd-2.6.9-89.ELlargesmp.img
> lost+found/
> memtest86+-1.26
> message
> message.ja
> symvers-2.6.9-89.EL.gz
> symvers-2.6.9-89.ELlargesmp.gz
> System.map-2.6.9-89.EL
> System.map-2.6.9-89.ELlargesmp
> vmlinuz-2.6.9-89.EL
> vmlinuz-2.6.9-89.ELlargesmp
> ~$ mount /dev/sdb5 /boot
> ~$ ls /boot
> anaconda-ks.cfg
> AvamarClient-linux-rhel4-x86_64-5.0.100-409.rpm
> commands_for_setup.txt
> Desktop
> install.log
> install.log.syslog
> ixgbe-2.0.75.7.tar.gz
> ixgbe-2.0.84.9
> ixgbe-2.0.84.9.tar.gz
> ixgbevf-1.0.8
> ixgbevf-1.0.8.tar.gz
> om
> OM_6.0.1_ManNode_A00.tar.gz
> oracle
> randsnapup
> resync_with_dd
> salil
>
> See the difference?
>



M.--

I THOUGHT I did, but the below indicates that I do not:
nat0 at nat0-E-6100:~$ ls boot
ls: cannot access boot: No such file or directory
nat0 at nat0-E-6100:~$ ls
Audiobooks  Documents  examples.desktop  Pictures    Public       Videos
Desktop       Downloads   Music                    Podcasts  Templates

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