Mount doesn't make missing mount points. It prints error and fails. It is either hotplug ( not sure if Ubuntu still uses it ) or more likely systemd. I'd start checking systemd and dmesg first.
Actually, I'd .... nevermind. On Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 6:09 PM John Jason Jordan <joh...@gmx.com> wrote: > On Wed, 17 Oct 2018 17:14:41 -0700 > Larry Brigman <larry.brig...@gmail.com> dijo: > > >Is it possible that there was a pending mount from the GUI that was > >waiting for the sudo permissions and it did the mount not your command? > > I don't see how that could be. > > First, the Movies drive is USB, which doesn't require sudo permissions, > and it was often mounted at Movies1 instead of Movies. More > importantly, I rarely try to mount something with the GUI, but if I did, > it mounted right away - just not in the right folder, the same as when I > mounted something from the command line. > > The only theory I can come up with is that mount can't mount something > to an existing folder, therefore it makes up a new one. But that makes > little sense too, because now that the mount point is specified in > fstab, mount happily mounts the drives into existing folders. > > If I executed the command 'mount /dev/sdc /media/jjj/Movies' the > command would execute immediately and without error, but /dev/sdc would > usually be mounted in /media/jjj/Movies1. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
