Questions that might help diagnose your issue: What distro are you using? What Desktop Environment or Window Manager are you using? and are you using NFS, Samba, or any other file sharing protocols. (Apple, ?)
On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 7:20 PM, David Barr <[email protected]> wrote: > I ~was~ going to point to it in the LFHS, but I was thinking of /mnt... ( > http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs/index.html) In any case, > it's non-standard. > > If I were to guess, /exports is the FS set aside for for NFS-Server. That > is, the material on this server that gets exported via NFS lives in this > FS. Since NFS can (much more easily now) be limited at the filesystem > level, that reduces the chances that a Bad Actor can cross the NFS-exported > filesystem boundary. > > But, none of that is relevant to your question, really, unless you're > deliberately exporting all of your attached removable devices... > > David > > > On Jun 15, 2018, at 6:08 PM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I just discovered that I have a new folder labeled /exports/users that > > contains folders for all the currently attached removable devices, > > including my NAS. These devices also appear at /media/jjj, as they > > always have. I can write or delete files on these devices from either > > location, either with the GUI (Thunar) or the command line. > > > > Why is it necessary for devices to appear in two places? Whose idea was > > this? > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > > -- > > David - Offbeat http://pgp.mit.edu/ > dafydd - Online 0xda3f18449337d6b5 > > ----5----1----5----2----5----3----5----4----5----5----5----6----5----7-- > > Pavlov walks into a bar. The phone rings and he says, > > "Damn! I forgot to feed the dog!" > > > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
