Thanks. Now this is an explanation that even I can understand! On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 8:54 AM Ben Koenig <[email protected]> wrote:
> /media is the folder where Ubuntu automounts removable media. When a USB > storage device is inserted, 2 things happen. > > 1) It creates a folder in /media > 2) It mounts the volume to the folder it just created. > > IF you already have a folder that you manually created, then the > automounter will ignore it, and use a different name. > > That's why your system is creating a new folder '/media/jjj/Data1'. It's > not the mount command doing this. the "user friendly" nature of Ubuntu is > to automatically mount such devices and is conflicting with your > mountpoints in fstab. > > Solution? Move all of your manual mountpoints to /mnt. /mnt is a legacy > mountpoint folder that applications these days don't use, and is perfect > for your application. > > You will notice significant improvements in the way your devices are > mounted if you use a proper folder to mount them in. > > > > On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 1:43 PM Denis Heidtmann <[email protected] > > > wrote: > > > Please lighten up and be more helpful. > > > > On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 8:45 AM Ben Koenig <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > The mount command requires root for all storage mediums. You are > horribly > > > misinformed in more ways than one. > > > > > > On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 8:15 PM Tomas Kuchta < > > [email protected] > > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > Mount doesn't make missing mount points. It prints error and fails. > > > > > > > > It is either hotplug ( not sure if Ubuntu still uses it ) or more > > likely > > > > systemd. I'd start checking systemd and dmesg first. > > > > > > > > Actually, I'd .... nevermind. > > > > > > > > On Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 6:09 PM John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Wed, 17 Oct 2018 17:14:41 -0700 > > > > > Larry Brigman <[email protected]> dijo: > > > > > > > > > > >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? > > > > > > > > > > I don't see how that could be. > > > > > > > > > > First, the Movies drive is USB, which doesn't require sudo > > permissions, > > > > > and it was often mounted at Movies1 instead of Movies. More > > > > > importantly, I rarely try to mount something with the GUI, but if I > > > did, > > > > > it mounted right away - just not in the right folder, the same as > > when > > > I > > > > > mounted something from the command line. > > > > > > > > > > The only theory I can come up with is that mount can't mount > > something > > > > > to an existing folder, therefore it makes up a new one. But that > > makes > > > > > little sense too, because now that the mount point is specified in > > > > > fstab, mount happily mounts the drives into existing folders. > > > > > > > > > > If I executed the command 'mount /dev/sdc /media/jjj/Movies' the > > > > > command would execute immediately and without error, but /dev/sdc > > would > > > > > usually be mounted in /media/jjj/Movies1. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > PLUG mailing list > > > > > [email protected] > > > > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > PLUG mailing list > > > > [email protected] > > > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > PLUG mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
