[SOLVED] USB Mounting Points Question

[linuxero]

Hi again;

This has never happened to me before in Mageia 1, now in Mageia 2 when I plug in some usb storage device a new mount-point is created in /media with an underscore added everytime..The older mount-point is not removed! Is there a reason for this? Am I doing anything wrong?

Anothe one is that when I want to open a file in a partition that needs root password to be accessed the mount point is created under /run/media/user-name/...

Is there a way to make it go under /media or that is only for dolphin?

Thanks

[doktor5000]

Which desktop environment are you using, i assume KDE since you seem to be using dolphin?

For me, i don't have /run/media, but for partitions which require root password there's a solution: viewtopic.php?p=5136#p5136
Works fine here.

As for the underscore, this seems to be some sort of bug, but this will only persist until next reboot, as /media is mounted as tmpfs and will be emptied at next boot.

[linuxero]

Which desktop environment are you using, i assume KDE since you seem to be using dolphin?

As you guessed, KDE

For me, i don't have /run/media, but for partitions which require root password there's a solution: viewtopic.php?p=5136#p5136
Works fine here.

I am going to have a look on it now

As for the underscore, this seems to be some sort of bug, but this will only persist until next reboot, as /media is mounted as tmpfs and will be emptied at next boot.

The problem is that those mount-points with the underscore added are not disappearing, so I am having a new one on every boot for the fixed disks partitions, as for the USB ones, I am having one added everytime I plug off and in the penny again! So it is persisting and filling my /media mount-point with, say; Data, Data_ Data__, Data___ ...etc.

Thank you

[doktor5000]

As for the underscore, this seems to be some sort of bug, but this will only persist until next reboot, as /media is mounted as tmpfs and will be emptied at next boot.

The problem is that those mount-points with the underscore added are not disappearing, so I am having a new one on every boot for the fixed disks partitions, as for the USB ones, I am having one added everytime I plug off and in the penny again! So it is persisting and filling my /media mount-point with, say; Data, Data_ Data__, Data___ ...etc.

Yeah, noticed that too after i finally got around to installing Mageia 2. After a failed attempt to mount a removable drive,
old mountpoint below /media will be persistent, and the new one will be called mountpoint_
Well, in my case, i just removed the original leftover mountpoint, and the removable mounted next time just fine.
But it's still a bug which should get fixed.

[linuxero]

Yeah, noticed that too after i finally got around to installing Mageia 2. After a failed attempt to mount a removable drive,
old mountpoint below /media will be persistent, and the new one will be called mountpoint_
Well, in my case, i just removed the original leftover mountpoint, and the removable mounted next time just fine.
But it's still a bug which should get fixed.

I am removing mine too, but they come up again..so mounting is failing often!!

[lynx13]

Same problem here.

Thing is, I am using one of the folders on my stick as a Favourite. So, anytime the system reboots the directory doesn't exist anymore.

This is really annoying.

I got up to 10 entries, starting Stick, Stick_, Stick__, Stick___ , and so on...

No workarounds here?

Any help will be appreciated!

All the best,
lynx

[linuxero]

Not only external disks, but internal ones too seem to suffer this problem!!

The best way to work around this till now is that you make sure the partition is unmounted before turning off the computer..!