Mounting issues

Christopher Svanefalk christopher.svanefalk at gmail.com
Sun Jun 5 10:14:39 UTC 2011


You are all right, I had to reboot my system due to a crash, but after that
I could see everything again. Thanks!

On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 11:56 AM, David <bouncingcats at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?
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