Re: Doubled external usb hard drives?
On Sun, 25 Dec 2011 18:22:46 +0000, Brian wrote:
> On Sun 25 Dec 2011 at 15:16:11 +0000, Sharon Kimble wrote:
>
>> This morning my usb external hard drive started playing up by showing
>> two instances, i.e.;-
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> ls -l /media total 48 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 22 20:10
>> 8eef3b99-c17b-4913-ae61-d34c7fd5d459 drwxrwxr-x 184 root boztu 12288
>> Dec 24 18:13 8eef3b99-c17b-4913-ae61-d34c7fd5d459_
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> ^
> ^
> ^
> These are two different mount points. ^
Correct. And it has happened because udisks tries to automount drives
onto /media/<partition label> (creating a new directory there first). But
if it finds a directory already exists there, it will append an
underscore and try again, and so on.
Witness:
$ cd /media
$ ls
Elements Elements-1T u01
$ mount|grep Elements-1T
/dev/sdb1 on /media/Elements-1T type ext2
(rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_xattr,acl,barrier=1,uhelper=udisks)
$ sudo umount /dev/sdb1
$ mount|grep Elements-1T
$ ls
Elements u01
$ sudo mkdir Elements-1T
$ ls
Elements Elements-1T u01
(now unplug the disk, then plug it in again)
$ ls
Elements Elements-1T Elements-1T_ u01
$ mount|grep Elements-1T
/dev/sdb1 on /media/Elements-1T_ type ext2
(rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_xattr,acl,barrier=1,uhelper=udisks)
$
Additional remark: That's why I always give my USB thumb drives as well
as my USB external disks sensible labels like "Red_USB" or "Elements-1T".
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