Nautilus creates a mount point for all the USB connected drives that are not mounted via fstab. If the drive is not cleanly unmounted (power cut, unplugged, etc.) it leaves the mount point. If you label the partition then Nautilus uses that label as the name of the directory created and used as the mount point. If not it should use the UUID.
Someone else had the same issue with too much white space. I think he never really resolved it but later it worked. Must be some difference in versions?
just run this but it is harder to read. But if you have not labeled anything then it really does not matter. I was just trying to show labels.
sudo blkid
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I have reformatted the file myself. Not so hard to do.
The 2 partitions are on the device sdf. There is also a swap partition on that device too. The 2 partitions we are talking about areThe mount points are blue and the UUID is red.Code:sdf2 ext4 /media/6e9ac323-45f6-4cb0-acca-8277530a3584_ 6e9ac323-45f6-4cb0-acca-8277530a3584 sdf5 ntfs HP Pocket Media Drive /media/HP Pocket Media Drive_ 08EC8654EC863BC6
If these are not mounted in fstab then you can unmount the devices and delete the mount points and new ones will be created. I agree with @ oldfred that the label for the HP Pocket Media drive should be shorter and with no spaces. Maybe: hp__usb_drive.
We should check first to make sure these are not mounted via the fstab file. You can provide the output like thisPast that output here.Code:cat /etc/fstab > fstab.txt
Last edited by redmk2; December 11th, 2012 at 10:50 PM.
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda6 during installation
UUID=a9320513-c32b-4ce2-b66f-f83f083cedd5 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /home was on /dev/sda7 during installation
UUID=d4ec1efb-06cd-4472-b540-e5d797f76846 /home ext4 defaults 0 2
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=d2acd6bd-8ba2-4f5b-bfa8-f268071a6b9a none swap sw 0 0
# swap was on /dev/sdf6 during installation
UUID=bdf866d0-4891-4bc7-9595-94069089e763 none swap sw 0 0
You are not mounting the 2 partitions with fstab. This means you can unmount the partition in question and delete the mount point safely. The mountpoint will be recreated when you either: enter this command...or you reboot the OS.Code:mount -a
I see there is a 2nd swap partition on this removable disk. Did you do this on purpose? I have highlighted it in red above.
I did not. The only thing I've done purposely with the external drive is shrink the Windows partion to create the linux partition. I've never used nor intended to use the external drive to boot from so I was surprised when a swap partition was present. I'll recapture it when I need the space.
By the way, what doesin reference to the root partition of the main hard drive mean? Thanks for your input today.Code:errors=remount-ro 0 1
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