Mounting issues

[Christopher Svanefalk]

in other words: it would appear that the files never dissapeared, and that
an unmount reverted the visibility of the folder to what was there before.
Quite a relief! Thanks again :)

On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Christopher Svanefalk <
christopher.svanefalk at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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