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Old 07-02-2012, 07:50 AM   #27
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Originally Posted by hawhill View Post
Not necessarily. In fact, I think mounting will always work regardless of whether the directory has contents or not. E.g. I have fall-back contents for my /home directory in the root file system, for cases when mounting the encrypted partition for it fails. On my laptop, though, not on the Kindle. But it would work.

However, given what flow_ is writing, I guess there's still some misunderstanding about the nature of the different partitions of the Kindle and the USB export mechanism around.
Interesting... I have had mounts fail because they contained files (on linux mint, and I think in at least one of my kindles too). Bind mounts can override that, and can even be mounted in stacks, on top of existing mounts.

But in flow_'s case, that does not explain how the files got there in the first place. When you unmount the USB drive, the mount point is empty on all my kindles. I suspect that his USB drive actually was mounted when he deleted his files. The fact that the files DID get deleted from his USB drive after he deleted them from the mount point also supports my hypothesis.
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