[PLUG] Mount command creates new folders

Denis Heidtmann denis.heidtmann at gmail.com
Thu Oct 18 20:43:17 UTC 2018


Please lighten up and be more helpful.

On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 8:45 AM Ben Koenig <techkoenig at gmail.com> wrote:

> The mount command requires root for all storage mediums. You are horribly
> misinformed in more ways than one.
>
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 8:15 PM Tomas Kuchta <tomas.kuchta.lists at gmail.com
> >
> wrote:
>
> > Mount doesn't make missing mount points. It prints error and fails.
> >
> > It is either hotplug ( not sure if Ubuntu still uses it ) or more likely
> > systemd. I'd start checking systemd and dmesg first.
> >
> > Actually, I'd .... nevermind.
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 6:09 PM John Jason Jordan <johnxj at gmx.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, 17 Oct 2018 17:14:41 -0700
> > > Larry Brigman <larry.brigman at gmail.com> dijo:
> > >
> > > >Is it possible that there was a pending mount from the GUI that was
> > > >waiting for the sudo permissions and it did the mount not your
> command?
> > >
> > > I don't see how that could be.
> > >
> > > First, the Movies drive is USB, which doesn't require sudo permissions,
> > > and it was often mounted at Movies1 instead of Movies. More
> > > importantly, I rarely try to mount something with the GUI, but if I
> did,
> > > it mounted right away - just not in the right folder, the same as when
> I
> > > mounted something from the command line.
> > >
> > > The only theory I can come up with is that mount can't mount something
> > > to an existing folder, therefore it makes up a new one. But that makes
> > > little sense too, because now that the mount point is specified in
> > > fstab, mount happily mounts the drives into existing folders.
> > >
> > > If I executed the command 'mount /dev/sdc /media/jjj/Movies' the
> > > command would execute immediately and without error, but /dev/sdc would
> > > usually be mounted in /media/jjj/Movies1.
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