> > Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > using a command like `mount /dev/hda1 /mnt'. Dissected: > > > > mount /dev/hda1 /mnt > > ^ ^^ ^ Mount point. This can be any directory. > > | || ************* > > Shouldn't that be any _empty_ directory?
No, it is the best way to hide files on a unix file system. I find it usefull to put a file 'no floppy mounted' in my /floppy dir, so that I will see this when I do ls /floppy and no floppy is mounted. Eric -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189 Eindhoven Univ. of Technology | tel. lab. +31 40 2475032 Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (TAK) | tel. fax +31 40 2455054 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .