[PLUG] Man pages rock! (OK, sometimes, maybe)

[Michael M.]

John Jason Jordan wrote:
> Now, for my next learning experience I'm going to see if I can figure
> out how to tell if /media/thumbdrive is the thumbdrive or just the
> mount point. Like, dragging files there with Konqueror or anything else
> doesn't display any difference. They appear there whether they were
> copied just to the folder or to the device, and there is no difference
> in the way they appear in the GUI. That was the whole problem --
> something should have told me "look dumbass, you're just copying the
> files to the mount point, not to the device because you're so stupid
> you never mounted the device."
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Is this a problem with the way Ubuntu encourages creating mount points 
under /media instead of under /mnt? I read, I think on the Ubuntu 
mailing list or forum, that you should create mount points under /media 
so that Ubuntu will display them on the desktop when mounted. That would 
be with the default Gnome environment anyway; I'm not sure whether it 
would be different with Kubuntu or Xubuntu. But if you had created your 
mount point under /mnt (say, /mnt/thumbdrive instead of 
/media/thumbdrive), would Konqueror have let you copy files there if the 
drive wasn't actually mounted?

I don't have a USB stick nor do I use Konqueror -- I'm just curious 
whether you'd have had the same issue if you used /mnt. I know I found 
Ubuntu's way of doing things a little confusing because I am used to 
thinking of /mnt as the place for mounting removable media and storage. 
I thought that Linux file system hierarchy standard had decreed it so.

-- 
Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA
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