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Directory invisible until I cd into it

Fresh7 days ago
Mar 15, 20262088 views
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Problem

I have a mysterious directory that doesn't list until I cd into it. Then it does just fine. Then it vanishes again periodically. Some time passes, with no commands entered... I am SSH'd into this machine with putty. If I open up another connection to the machine, the second connection seems to alwa…

Error Output

bash-3.00$ pwd
/sde
bash-3.00$ ls -la
total 16
drwxr-xr-x   4 root root    0 May 18 16:46 .
drwxr-xr-x  29 root root 4096 Mar 23 13:16 ..
drwxrwxrwx …

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Fix for: Directory invisible until I cd into it

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You're seeing an automounter in operation. Automounter implementations vary, but the basic principle is to mount a directory only when it's accessed. This one is mounting on demand when you change into it; other automounters might always list it in …

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