Problem reading mounted directory

Hello,
   I am impressed with tomsrtbt.  It looks like a very nice tool.

I am having a problem with version 2.0.103 however.  When mounting a 
hard disk partition using mount -t ext3 /dev/hda1 /mnt, I find the 
/mnt/etc directory empty.  Other directories are properly assessable 
under /mnt. The system being mounted is Redhat 8.0.  There does not seem 
to be a problem doing the same thing on a RH7.3 system.  I've tried two 
different RH8 systems and get the same behavior.

Has anyone else seen this problem?

   -- Bruce Dubbs