[PLUG] Challenges in the Troubleshooting Process

[wes]

/media is managed by the GUI. the GUI reads the volume name when it's
connected, and mounts it on /media/[username]/[volume name]. If there is
already something there, you will end up with a second filesystem mounted
on the same mount point.

It's not a problem.... until it is.

-wes

On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 3:08 PM John Jason Jordan <johnxj at gmx.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 21 Oct 2019 08:45:20 -0700
> Ben Koenig <techkoenig at gmail.com> dijo:
>
> >There is a sequence of steps used to troubleshoot a given issue.
> >Sometimes when running through these steps, you may appear to have
> >"fixed" the problem, when all you did was poke it to do what you
> >wanted. A good example is one of the Ubuntu users on this thread who
> >has mounts his USB drives in /media. It's a bad thing to do, but since
> >it appears to work when he sets it up, he never stops to think that it
> >might cause problems later.
>
> What later problems might this cause?
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