On Sun, 02 Apr 2006 15:25:41 +0200 Philippe De Ryck <philippe.de.ryck@skynet.be> wrote: > [...] > A mount point is basically a directory. You can put stuff in that > directory and just use it as a directory. If you want to mount a drive, > you need to select a directory where the drive will be mounted. Again, > this can be any directory, even one that you use as a normal directory. > The moment you mount the drive, the directory contents will still exist, > but are unreachable in the filesystem. The content of the directory > however has become the content of the mounted media. The moment you > unmount this media, your previous content stored in the directory will > appear again. > More than I few times I've "lost" a file this way... only to find it months later... A >
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