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*
