Please lighten up and be more helpful. On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 8:45 AM Ben Koenig <techkoe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The mount command requires root for all storage mediums. You are horribly > misinformed in more ways than one. > > On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 8:15 PM Tomas Kuchta <tomas.kuchta.li...@gmail.com > > > wrote: > > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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