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Re: Moving files between DOS hard drive and Linux hard drive



> 
> Ben Pfaff <pfaffben@pilot.msu.edu> 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

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