Bryan Phinney said:
> David, the act of creating a mount point and mounting a partition involves
> two
> separate things.  First, you create an actual mount point directory off of
> root.  That directory is there regardless of whether the partition is
> mounted
> or not.  Second, you create an fstab entry that tells the mount -a command
> what partition to mount and what mount point to use.  Once you issue the
> mount command, the empty mount point directory is no longer empty and you
> will see the contents of the partition.  You have now removed the winshare
> partition and it is no longer being mounted but the mount point directory
> still exists.  You simply need to go out as root and issue the rm
> -r /winshare command and it will remove the empty directory.
>
> Make sure that it is empty first, ls /winshare

Thanks. I was very confused, but that makes sense. I'll go ahead and
remove the directory.

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