[NTLUG:Discuss] Invisible File

[Tom Tumelty]

On 12/6/05, Eric Waguespack <ewaguespack at gmail.com> wrote:
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> are you sure the USB drive is ever mounting?
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> 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:
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> /media/usbdrive
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> and you insert the usb drive and it fails to mount...
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> then you copy a_file to /media/usbdrive
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> a file will then exist : /media/usbdrive/a_file
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> 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.
>
>



I will try this. I believe it makes sense.

Thank You,
Tom