hotplug adding new lines? On Fri, Oct 12, 2018, 9:22 PM John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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? > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
