John Jason Jordan
2018-10-13 04:22:06 UTC
Xubuntu 16.04.
I have a large external USB drive that is normally mounted
at /media/jjj/Movies. Suddenly I find that it is also mounted
at /media/jjj/Movies1. I certainly didn't do this deliberately. I can
access all files on the device via either mount point. They appear in
the GUI (Nautilus or Thunar) with the same information, e.g., 2,767
files/folders. I created the Movies mount point ages ago, but I never
created the Movies1 folder.
In fstab I find a new line that I did not write:
/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
The device in that line '256GB-1' is one of two USB flash drives that I
acquired very recently (the other is '256GB-2'). When I got them I
reformatted them ext4 and gave them their labels. I do not understand
how a device like that can cause a line to be written to fstab, and if
it can, why the other one did not also create a line for itself.
Explanations? Suggestions?
I have a large external USB drive that is normally mounted
at /media/jjj/Movies. Suddenly I find that it is also mounted
at /media/jjj/Movies1. I certainly didn't do this deliberately. I can
access all files on the device via either mount point. They appear in
the GUI (Nautilus or Thunar) with the same information, e.g., 2,767
files/folders. I created the Movies mount point ages ago, but I never
created the Movies1 folder.
In fstab I find a new line that I did not write:
/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
The device in that line '256GB-1' is one of two USB flash drives that I
acquired very recently (the other is '256GB-2'). When I got them I
reformatted them ext4 and gave them their labels. I do not understand
how a device like that can cause a line to be written to fstab, and if
it can, why the other one did not also create a line for itself.
Explanations? Suggestions?