I didn't fully *cognitively* grasp what you're saying, BUT I did graspenough to attempt the following via xfce4-terminal: $ cd /mountpoint $ ls $ *(anticipated) crickets* $ sudo (YEAH, I KNOW!) mount LABEL=buster-backup /mountpoint $ ls $ *mammoth-sized crickets*
I would never have thought to do it this way. It always made more sense to be in the directory just above the actual mount point. Say I have a directory /mnt/tom. I would:
cd /mnt
mount /dev/whatever tom
ls tom
... would show the contents of what was just mounted if there
were no errors.
If you have the following line in /etc/fstab (and the fuse
programs necessary):
sshfs#sue@cindyslaptop:/home/sue /mnt/sue fuse user,noauto,rw 0 0
and run:
cd /mnt
mount sue
ls sue
... would show sue's directory on cindyslaptop. Notice that
since there is an entry for /mnt/sue in fstab you only need to
mount the directory /mnt/sue.
I use this to mount a directory on a remote machine locally after
setting up public key authentication so it doesn't even ask for a
password. This could also be used with file systems in /dev but
they would always need to be the same name (like /dev/sdc1) or
some other way to identify the exact drive to be mounted like the
drives UUID.