[NTLUG:Discuss] Invisible File

[Eric Waguespack]

are you sure the USB drive is ever mounting?

type mount with the USB drive "mounted" and verify that it is mounted...

also you might do an ls on the mount point while the USB drive is NOT
plugged in, just to verify that the file isn't on the hard drive.

for example, say you have a mountpoint on your linux box here:

/media/usbdrive

and you insert the usb drive and it fails to mount...

then you copy a_file to /media/usbdrive

a file will then exist : /media/usbdrive/a_file

it just will not be on your usbdrive.

to complicate things further, in the event that you do mount the usb drive,
the file will seemingly dissappear from that mount point

hopefully this makes sense.


On 12/6/05, Greg Edwards <greg at nas-inet.com> wrote:
>
> Tom Tumelty wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > The file is visible from the linux box, but when i take the disk to the
> xp
> > box it is not there.
>
> Windows files have a hidden attribute, make sure it's turned off.
>
> --
> Greg Edwards
> New Age Software, Inc. - Software Engineering Services
> http://www.nas-inet.com
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