On Fri, 18 Jun 2021, John Jason Jordan wrote:

I mount a removable drive at a folder in my root drive. I copy files to
it. I umount the drive and unplug it. Later, with the removable drive not
even plugged in I look at the folder where I mounted it, and there are all
the files that I thought I was copying to the removable drive.

John,

Are you familiar with the PWD environment variable? At the shell prompt type
$ echo PWD
and the present working directory will be displayed.

Using this after cd'ing to your multiple directories with  the same files
might provide you with insights into what's happening.

HTH,

Rich

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