Why is the directory no longer empty? Where are the listed files physically stored?

Manually mounting and unmounting filesystems
a. Use the ls -l command to verify that the directory second_drive is in the analyst’s home directory.



[analyst@secOps /]$ cd ~

[analyst@secOps ~]$ ls –l

total 28

drwxr-xr-x 3 analyst analyst 4096 Aug 16 15:15 cyops_folder2

drwxr-xr-x 2 analyst analyst 4096 Sep 26 2014 Desktop

drwx------ 3 analyst analyst 4096 Jul 14 11:28 Downloads

drwxr-xr-x 8 analyst analyst 4096 Jul 25 16:27 lab.support.files

drwxr-xr-x 2 analyst analyst 4096 Mar 3 15:56 second_drive

-rw-r--r-- 1 analyst analyst 142 Aug 16 15:11 some_text_file.txt

-rw-r--r-- 1 analyst analyst 254 Aug 16 13:38 space.txt

b. Use ls -l again to list the contents of the newly created second_drive directory.



[analyst@secOps ~]$ ls -l second_drive/

total 0

Notice that the directory is empty.
c. Use the mount command to mount /dev/sdb1 on the newly created second_drive directory. The syntax of mount is: mount [options] .



[analyst@secOps ~]$ sudo mount /dev/sdb1 ~/second_drive/

[sudo] password for analyst:

No output is provided which means the mounting process was successful.
d. Now that the /dev/sdb1 has been mounted on /home/analyst/second_drive, use ls -l to list the contents of the directory again.



[analyst@secOps ~]$ ls -l second_drive/

total 20

drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Mar 3 10:59 lost+found

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 183 Mar 3 15:42 myFile.txt

After the mount, /home/analyst/second_drive becomes the entry point to the filesystem physically stored in /dev/sdb1.