/media is managed by the GUI. the GUI reads the volume name when it's connected, and mounts it on /media/[username]/[volume name]. If there is already something there, you will end up with a second filesystem mounted on the same mount point.
It's not a problem.... until it is. -wes On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 3:08 PM John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 21 Oct 2019 08:45:20 -0700 > Ben Koenig <[email protected]> dijo: > > >There is a sequence of steps used to troubleshoot a given issue. > >Sometimes when running through these steps, you may appear to have > >"fixed" the problem, when all you did was poke it to do what you > >wanted. A good example is one of the Ubuntu users on this thread who > >has mounts his USB drives in /media. It's a bad thing to do, but since > >it appears to work when he sets it up, he never stops to think that it > >might cause problems later. > > What later problems might this cause? > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
