On Sun, 25 Dec 2011 18:22:46 +0000, Brian wrote: > On Sun 25 Dec 2011 at 15:16:11 +0000, Sharon Kimble wrote: > >> This morning my usb external hard drive started playing up by showing >> two instances, i.e.;- >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> ls -l /media total 48 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 22 20:10 >> 8eef3b99-c17b-4913-ae61-d34c7fd5d459 drwxrwxr-x 184 root boztu 12288 >> Dec 24 18:13 8eef3b99-c17b-4913-ae61-d34c7fd5d459_ >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > ^ > ^ > ^ > These are two different mount points. ^
Correct. And it has happened because udisks tries to automount drives onto /media/<partition label> (creating a new directory there first). But if it finds a directory already exists there, it will append an underscore and try again, and so on. Witness: $ cd /media $ ls Elements Elements-1T u01 $ mount|grep Elements-1T /dev/sdb1 on /media/Elements-1T type ext2 (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_xattr,acl,barrier=1,uhelper=udisks) $ sudo umount /dev/sdb1 $ mount|grep Elements-1T $ ls Elements u01 $ sudo mkdir Elements-1T $ ls Elements Elements-1T u01 (now unplug the disk, then plug it in again) $ ls Elements Elements-1T Elements-1T_ u01 $ mount|grep Elements-1T /dev/sdb1 on /media/Elements-1T_ type ext2 (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_xattr,acl,barrier=1,uhelper=udisks) $ Additional remark: That's why I always give my USB thumb drives as well as my USB external disks sensible labels like "Red_USB" or "Elements-1T". -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jd88vh$sb5$1...@dough.gmane.org
