[PLUG] Mount command creates new folders

Denis Heidtmann denis.heidtmann at gmail.com
Mon Oct 22 22:44:57 UTC 2018


Thanks.  Now this is an explanation that even I can understand!

On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 8:54 AM Ben Koenig <techkoenig at gmail.com> wrote:

> /media is the folder where Ubuntu automounts removable media. When a USB
> storage device is inserted, 2 things happen.
>
> 1) It creates a folder in /media
> 2) It mounts the volume to the folder it just created.
>
> IF you already have a folder that you manually created, then the
> automounter will ignore it, and use a different name.
>
> That's why your system is creating a new folder '/media/jjj/Data1'. It's
> not the mount command doing this. the "user friendly" nature of Ubuntu is
> to automatically mount such devices and is conflicting with your
> mountpoints in fstab.
>
> Solution? Move all of your manual mountpoints to /mnt. /mnt is a legacy
> mountpoint folder that applications these days don't use, and is perfect
> for your application.
>
> You will notice significant improvements in the way your devices are
> mounted if you use a proper folder to mount them in.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 1:43 PM Denis Heidtmann <denis.heidtmann at gmail.com
> >
> wrote:
>
> > 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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