Re: tlug: Mounting my W95 partition

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> One thing to watch out for---you _can_ (or you used to be able to) do
> something like
> 
> $ mkdir /w95
> $ echo "There's nothing mounted here!" > /w95/this_file_isnt_on_dev_hda1
> $ mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /w95
> 
> and doing a `ls /w95/this_file_isnt_on_dev_hda1' will give you null
> output, but if you do `umount /w95' first, then that file will
> "reappear."  A few years back there was a driver for an Inherited File 

it still works this way.

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Linux Developer/Systems Administrator for Pacific HiTech, Inc. 
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