On Tue, Sep 05, 2017 at 08:35:27AM -0700, James H. H. Lampert wrote: > The box I've been reconfiguring over the past few weeks has a hardware RAID > controller card, with one mirrored (RAID 1) pair on it at the time of > installation. Over the weekend, I plugged two more drives into the two empty > sockets, to create a second mirrored pair, which shows up in Linux as "sdb." > > Initially, it auto-mounted much the same way the external drive > auto-mounted. I added this line to fstab, and now it mounts at the > mountpoint of my own choosing: > > > /dev/sdb /media/Auxiliary ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 2 > > Everything seems to work fine, except for two things: > > 1. Gnome produces a desktop icon for it. Before I added the fstab entry, > that icon was a picture of a modern hard drive; now, with the fstab entry, > it is, of all things, a generic *document* icon. (By contrast, my USB > external drive shows up with the "Merlin disk pack" icon I gave it years > ago, and I didn't have to do anything new for Linux that I hadn't done for > WinDoze; I've got both .ico and .png files of that icon on the new mirrored > pair.) > > 2. It can be unmounted. I'd rather it not be unmountable.
I suspect both of those are the result of mounting it in /media. Try this: mkdir /aux umount /dev/sdb edit fstab to: /dev/sdb /aux ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 2 mount /dev/sdb and see if the same behavior repeats. -dsr-