One of the problems you were having were these ephemeral mount folders in
/media. It was causing a lot of general confusion by duplicating your
mountpoints. You should really consider moving your lines in fstab from
/media to /mnt. This would clear up issues with things not working as
expected. Fro
Good point with the labels John, there are other ways to skin the cat.
You can give timeout option on your mount line to avoid excessive boot
times when your drive is not attached. Something longer than it takes to
wake up your drives.
On Mon, Oct 21, 2019, 21:02 John Jason Jordan wrote:
> On M
On Mon, 21 Oct 2019 16:34:48 -0700
wes dijo:
>/media is managed by the GUI. the GUI reads the volume name when it's
>connected, and mounts it on /media/[username]/[volume name]. If there
>is already something there, you will end up with a second filesystem
>mounted on the same mount point.
A lon
The thing about /dev/sd[a-z][0-9] and older ata /dev/hd[a-z][0-9] as well
as NVMe and USB device names is that they are controller, port and/or
plug-in order dependent.
If you have bunch of drives connected to any of these interfaces at boot
time. They are enumerated by controller/port/partition o
/media is managed by the GUI. the GUI reads the volume name when it's
connected, and mounts it on /media/[username]/[volume name]. If there is
already something there, you will end up with a second filesystem mounted
on the same mount point.
It's not a problem until it is.
-wes
On Mon, Oct 2
On Mon, 21 Oct 2019 08:45:20 -0700
Ben Koenig dijo:
>There is a sequence of steps used to troubleshoot a given issue.
>Sometimes when running through these steps, you may appear to have
>"fixed" the problem, when all you did was poke it to do what you
>wanted. A good example is one of the Ubuntu
Hopefully it lets me change the subject to start a new conversation. You
bring up some interesting points but it's very off topic.
On 10/21/19 6:34 AM, Tomas Kuchta wrote:
In one of the weekend posts you learned how to obtain disk and partition
uuid - is there any technical reason to not use uu
