[PLUG] Mount command creates new folders

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Wed Oct 17 17:46:48 UTC 2018


On Wed, 17 Oct 2018, John Jason Jordan wrote:

> I have a second drive in my computer that the computer knows as /dev/sda1.
> (/Home and / are on /dev/sdb.) There is a folder 'Data' in /media/jjj/,
> which is where I want to mount /dev/sda1. But when I use the command 'sudo
> mount /dev/sda1 /media/jjj/Data' the mount command creates a new folder
> /media/jjj/Data1 and mounts /dev/sda1 in it.
>
> Why?

John,

   Tell us what mount points are defined and what partitions are on each. The
command 'mount' displays available mount points.

   To learn what's on each one you can use either 'less /etc/fstab' or
'lsblk'.

   I assume that /, /boot, and /swap are all on /dev/sda/. Is this correct?

Rich



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