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Mounting of USB flash drives - observed strangeness



I've a 64 GB USB stick formatted as FAT32 as it will be occasionally used on a Windows machine.

Right now I'm trying to use it on two Debian 6.0.5 machines created from the same DVD. One is physically a desktop machine whose install was done in "expert" mode -- do not recall what options I chose. The second is physically a laptop whose install was done in "non-expert" mode accepting all defaults.

The result is:

For the DESKTOP

richard@debian:~$ ls -l /media
total 36
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root    root        6 Nov  8 01:47 cdrom -> cdrom0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root    root     4096 Nov  8 01:47 cdrom0
drwx------ 5 richard richard 32768 Dec 31  1969 COPYDVD
richard@debian:~$ ls -l /media/*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Nov 8 01:47 /media/cdrom -> cdrom0

/media/cdrom0:
total 0

/media/COPYDVD:
total 8288
drwx------ 3 richard richard   32768 Nov  8 09:01 dists
-rw-r--r-- 1 richard richard 8395730 Nov 11 07:45 Packages.gz
drwx------ 4 richard richard   32768 Nov  8 09:02 pool
richard@debian:~$


For the LAPTOP
richard@debian:~$ ls -l /media
total 36
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root    root     6 Nov 12 08:00 cdrom -> cdrom0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root    root  4096 Nov 12 08:00 cdrom0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root    root     4 Nov 12 08:00 usb -> usb0
drwxr-xr-x 5 richard root 32768 Dec 31  1969 usb0
richard@debian:~$ ls -l /media/*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Nov 12 08:00 /media/cdrom -> cdrom0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root    root     4 Nov 12 08:00 /media/usb -> usb0

/media/cdrom0:
total 0

/media/usb0:
total 8288
drwxr-xr-x 3 richard root   32768 Nov  8 03:01 dists
-rwxr-xr-x 1 richard root 8395730 Nov 11 01:45 Packages.gz
drwxr-xr-x 4 richard root   32768 Nov  8 03:02 pool
richard@debian:~$


I'm experimenting with creating a local custom repository with the contents of several DVDs. I wish to refer to it in the same manner on all debian machines. I don't have a particular preference as how I refer to it. I _SHOULD_ be machine independent!

Could someone explain what's happening here?
TIA






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