What happens if you mount to a non-empty mount point with fuse?

Question

I am new to fuse. When I try to run a FUSE client program I get this error:

fuse: mountpoint is not empty
fuse: if you are sure this is safe, use the \'nonem         


        

Answer 1

Apparently nothing happens, it fails in a non-destructive way and gives you a warning.

I've had this happen as well very recently. One way you can solve this is by moving all the files in the non-empty mount point to somewhere else, e.g.:

mv /nonEmptyMountPoint/* ~/Desktop/mountPointDump/

This way your mount point is now empty, and your mount command will work.