no /media directory in Ubuntu 12.04 ?
I run Ubuntu 12.04 . I connected an old (~2007) USB hard drive. The partitions on that drive automatically
became visible (one separate window for each partition).
(names of the partitions are NJIT3 , NJIT4 , etc, a few are described only by size).
Those windows show the files etc inside the respective partitions.
Format is VFAT.
I can not find out how to comfortably access these partitions.
Used to be I could see them as
/media/NJIT1
/media/NJIT2
etc (I think I was still running RedHat at the time).
(and then read, write, copy, etc as any file or directory.)
But my computer does not have a /media directory. It HAS a /mnt directory, but that one is empty.
HELP
Teunis J. Ott
<email address hidden>
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Mount them using nautilus and run:
mount
You will see the mount points of each partition.
| Teunis Ott (teun) said : | #2 |
Can you expand on "Mount them using nautilus"?
I typed "nautilus" in my home directory. It created a window which shows
the contents of my home directory, plus on the left side the partitions in
the USB drive (with roughly the names I had given them in 2007:
NJIT3 , NJIT4 , etc. only the numbers have changed).
How can I mount these directories?
(with or without nautilus).
Where do I run "mount" ? In my home directory?
What I want is have them visible as
<directoryname>
<directoryname>
etc.
(or other numbers than 1 , 2 , ... .)
Another question remains: does Ubuntu have a /media directory?
I used to use RedHat.
Best, Teun.
On 10/08/2012 10:21 AM, actionparsnip wrote:
> Your question #210672 on Ubuntu changed:
> https:/
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
> actionparsnip proposed the following answer:
> Mount them using nautilus and run:
>
> mount
>
> You will see the mount points of each partition.
>
Just get access as you normally do, or is this the issue?
| Teunis Ott (teun) said : | #4 |
Problem solved.
I typed "mount" in my home directory, that seems to have created
the /media directory AND mounted the partitions there.
teun@Lucas:/$ cd media
teun@Lucas:/media$ ls -lt
total 100
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 8 12:05 cdrom
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Oct 28 2007
eb406759-
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Oct 28 2007
ae1080b2-
drwx------ 101 teun teun 16384 Dec 31 1969 NJIT3
drwx------ 2 teun teun 16384 Dec 31 1969 NJIT4
drwx------ 2 teun teun 16384 Dec 31 1969 NJIT5
drwx------ 2 teun teun 16384 Dec 31 1969 NJIT6
drwx------ 2 teun teun 16384 Dec 31 1969 NJIT7
drwx------ 3 teun teun 8192 Dec 31 1969 NJIT8
teun@Lucas:/media$
Though I do not understand where the dates (Dec 31 1969) come from.
Many Thanks, Teun Ott.
On 10/08/2012 10:21 AM, actionparsnip wrote:
> Your question #210672 on Ubuntu changed:
> https:/
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
> actionparsnip proposed the following answer:
> Mount them using nautilus and run:
>
> mount
>
> You will see the mount points of each partition.
>
| Teunis Ott (teun) said : | #5 |
See my previous Email: Problem solved.
There was no /media directory. Now there is. ???
Your reference to nautilus was superfluous and confusing.
I did "mount" in my home directory.
I assume this amounts to an automount , which I had tried,
but with argument "NJIT*". (did not work.)
Best, Teun.
On 10/08/2012 10:56 AM, actionparsnip wrote:
> Your question #210672 on Ubuntu changed:
> https:/
>
> Status: Open => Needs information
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> actionparsnip requested more information:
> Just get access as you normally do, or is this the issue?
>
Please mark as solved if it is so. Thanks
| Teunis Ott (teun) said : | #7 |
Problem solved.
The documentation can use some improvement.
According to my observations, the directory /media did not exist but was created when I executed
the "mount" command (without options). I will observe whether it will continue to exist after I unmount.
The correct procedure is:
Connect USB exernal hard drive to USB port.
Observe the computer sees it: a window is created for every partition.
execute "mount", without options. (Just type mount, followed by carriage return. E.g. in home directory.)
---
I have a left over remark:
"fdisk -l" recognized /dev/sdg1 , which is "the whole disk". Documentation should say not to worry that
"mount" will mount that "device". (The other "devices" from the USB disk were
sdg5 , ... , sdg12 . These together cover almost the whole disk.
Teun Ott.
