RE: Zip/printer -- Pseudo-problem mysteriously solved!

[Charles Galpin <cgalpin lighthouse-software com>]

Benjamin

I learnt this trick from the list a while back to help show when something 
is mounted or not.

In your case, do the following to set it up

umount  /mnt/zip			# make sure it's not mounted
rm  /mnt/zip/*				# remove anything from previous mistakes
touch  /mnt/zip/IM_NOT_MOUNTED	# create warning file

now whenever you look in that directory, if you see this file then you know 
it is not mounted!
Once you mount a disk, this file is hidden.

hth
charles

===== Original Message from "Madel, Kurt" <redhat-list redhat com> at 
4/30/99 4:17 pm
>/mnt/zip is acting like any other directory. If you look at /mnt/zip/ with
>no disc in your zip drive, all the files you copied to /mnt/zip/ will still
>be there, because they are on your hard drive. They were never on your zip
>disc.  Try erasing everything under /mnt/zip/ without a zip disc in, then
>put in the zip disc you thought you copied files to.  Are there any files
>there now?
>
>If there are, then you have the best plug n play I ever heard of!
>
>Kurt