Hi Riccardo,
On 2025-10-28 13:20:28 +0100 Riccardo Mottola
<[email protected]> wrote:
(...)
When an icon disk is really associated with a plugged and mounted
disk,
yes, the icon disappear after DND on the Recycler.
But if it is a "ghost" icon (the disk is not really plugged nor
mounted)
the DND fails (icon forbidden on the Recycler). The only way to
remove fake
icons is then to log out and log in again.
I tested and retested and couldn't reproduce this.
I want to understand if these "ghost disks" exst or not and what
happens. The
system things they are mounted perhaps.
Do you have an automounter or similar?
Before You asked, I tought I did not, but as I searched in the
installed packages list, I found "udisks2" and its libraries was
installed, so I guess this is a dependency side effect, but not in the
list I was aware when building AGNoStep Desktop.
First, without "checking". In the ghost disk status.
Open a Terminal or shell.
Check the content of /etc/mtab. Does it show /mnt/CRUCIAL ?
The disk CRUCIAL is not plugged.
patrick@pi400:~ $ cat /etc/mtab | grep -e "/mnt/CRUCIAL"
patrick@pi400:~ $ echo $?
1
If you do ls /mnt/CRUCIAL ? does it show contents or not? if you
execute it
twice and wait a couple of seconds in between?
If it shows at the second time, recheck mtab
ls did not show anything.
Use the file browser to go to /mnt/CRUCIAL
Does it show empty or content?
It is empty.
If you mount the disk by "check disks" does it show then min mtab? Or
does it
show in a different way than before it is was there before?
Plugging the CRUCIAL disk.
Shortcut #E
The two disks icons (CRUCIAL and CLEPAT) are shown on the Desktop.
patrick@pi400:~ $ cat /etc/mtab | grep -e "/mnt/"
/dev/sda1 /mnt/CRUCIAL ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
So /etc/mtab has a new line about the disk plugged.
Nothing related to the ghost CLEPAT
And if you unmount it and disappears, what does mtab then show?
Unmount CRUCIAL by DND on the Recycler Icon.
Then:
patrick@pi400:~ $ cat /etc/mtab | grep -e "/mnt/"
patrick@pi400:~ $ echo $?
1
Now, only the ghost CLEPAT remains on the Desktop.
Patrick
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