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Re: 1.1.7:mount and ls problem
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 06:56:01PM +0200, Ehud Karni wrote:
>> cd /
>> mkdir e
>> mount e: /e
>> All is well -- e shows up in both an ls ( as e) and mount (as e: /e).
>>
>> mount f: /f
>> I get the error:
>> mount: warning - /f does not exist
>> but mount shows
>> f: f/ . . .
>> and ls doesn't show f.
>>
>> If I do mkdir f, I get:
>> mkdir: cannot make directory `f': File exists
>
>On UNIX systems, you can NOT mount on non-existing directory.
The POSIX part of a mount does not have to be a directory.
cgf
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