Mounting issues

[David]

On 5 June 2011 19:27, Christopher Svanefalk
<christopher.svanefalk at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey guys,
> alright, I have the following issue: I was experimenting with mounting SMB
> shares on my machine lately, and mounted a remote share to a local folder
> (no special commands passed, just a standard mount). What I did not know was
> that mount seems to remove all files resident in the mount-folder prior to
> the mount.
> My question is: is there any way to get the files I had in the folder prior
> to the mount back? Or will I have to use a recovery tool? If so, which one
> would you recommend?

The usual behaviour of a mountpoint is that the previous contents if
any become invisible during the mount, and become visible again when
you unmount. I'm not sure about SMB though. Did you try umount yet?