<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Avi Greenbury <<a href="mailto:lists@avi.co">lists@avi.co</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> Let's say you have a directory /media/music. In this directory are two files: file1 file2 And you have a removable hard drive, with music on it. In this directory are four files: song1 song2 song3 song4. If you look in the directory /media/music/, you will see /media/music/file1 /media/music/file2 If you mount that removable hard drive at /media/music, then when you look in /media/music you will see: /media/music/song1 /media/music/song2 /media/music/song3 /media/music/song4 file1 and file2 haven't been deleted, they're just inaccessible while something else is mounted in their parent directory (/media/music). If you unmount the removable drive and look in /media/music you'll see /media/music/file1 /media/music/file2 Again, song1, song2, song3 and song4 haven't been deleted, they're just rendered inaccesible because they're not mounted anywhere. </blockquote></div> Amazing if it happens. I guess 'file1' and 'file2' would remain there (it would be since these haven't been deleted) but not getting shown! Did you check manually by going into the directory (GUI) after mounting the external hard-disk? -- Two atoms are walking along. Suddenly, one stops. The other says, "What's wrong?" "I've lost an electron." "Are you sure?" "I'm positive!" =================================================== <a href="http://sites.google.com/site/whyilikeubuntu/" target="_blank">Ubuntu LTS is good!</a> ===================================================