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?
On Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 5:11 PM John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 17 Oct 2018 13:25:42 -0700 (PDT) > Rich Shepard <[email protected]> dijo: > > > I meant to ask what mount moints you have on /mnt. > > None on /mnt. Everything is on /media/jjj. Except maybe the optical > drives; I'm not actually sure where they go. But they are not a problem > so I ignore them. > > I think I have a solution. The man page for mount says that it goes > to /etc/fstab to find where it is supposed to mount things, so I > decided to do some serious editing of fstab. Here is my final version: > > # / and /home were installed on /dev/sdb because it was faster than > /dev/sda > # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> > UUID=27c11f6b-b443-417e-9853-12c99789d8d9 / ext4 errors=remount-ro,user 0 1 > UUID=9a201393-e364-4d11-b372-877cded3b9cc /home ext4 defaults,user 0 2 > 192.168.1.115:/volume1/Synology /media/jjj/Synology nfs auto,user 0 0 > #so clients can see nfs share > /media/jjj /export/users none bind 0 0 > #This line not added by me: > #/dev/disk/by-label/256GB-1 /media/jjj/256GB-1 auto > nosuid,nodev,nofail,noauto,x-gvfs-show,x-gvfs-name=256GB-1 0 0 > #For Data drive > UUID=f8b85f57-d7a6-4454-9939-7e21fb355bb4 /media/jjj/Data ext4 > errors=remount-ro,user 0 1 > #For Movies USB device > UUID=50b66cfb-01ba-4c15-9f3c-5e9718c6f604 /media/jjj/Movies ext4 > errors=remount-ro,user 0 1 > > After saving fstab where I added the Data and Movies drives, I unmounted > both Data and Movies, and then did 'sudo mount -a'. It worked - both > drives were mounted where they belonged, not in Data1 or Movies1 as > sometimes happened in the past. > > I still don't know why mount would often take it upon itself to make a > new folder to mount the drive in, ignoring the folder that I specified > in the command. Like 'hey mount, what part of /media/jjj/Data did you > not understand?' > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
