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Re: A Basic Mount Observation

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On 5/7/19 12:02 PM, Cindy Sue Causey wrote:
> I didn't fully *cognitively* grasp what you're saying, BUT I did grasp
> enough 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.


*...Bob*

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A Basic Mount Observation "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2019-05-07 17:00 +0200
  Re: A Basic Mount Observation Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2019-05-07 17:30 +0200
    Re: A Basic Mount Observation <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-05-07 17:40 +0200
      Re: A Basic Mount Observation Cindy Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2019-05-07 18:10 +0200
        Re: A Basic Mount Observation Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2019-05-07 18:30 +0200
  Re: A Basic Mount Observation Cindy Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2019-05-07 18:10 +0200
    Re: A Basic Mount Observation Bob Weber <bobrweber@gmail.com> - 2019-05-07 19:00 +0200
    Re: A Basic Mount Observation "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2019-05-07 19:00 +0200

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