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ubuntini2
October 5th, 2019, 10:21 PM
On Ubuntu (Mate) 18.04.1 LTS
Just reformatted an external 1TB SSD to NTFS using the built in Disks utility.

First question
Is there a way to make external drives mount on the desktop like you can with OSX?

2nd question
Why doesn't my new drive appear under /media/<user>/ ?

3rd question
Is there a way to change the mnt name (at /mnt/) to something more descriptive?

Lastly, if yes to #3, can this name be consisted with what is viewable at /media/<user>/ ?

yancek
October 6th, 2019, 01:58 AM
I doubt if external drive partition mount points are the Desktlop but then I've never used a Mac so can't really say. Most likely that is just a link. On the other hand, I suppose you could create a mount point on user Desktop though that might create problems, depending upon what the drive is used for.l
Does anything show under /media/username? UUID's?
What do you want to change under /mnt? You can create a mount point there for an external drive partition and create a proper entry in the /etc/fstab file to have it mount there on boot. You can give the mount point any name you wish.
Not sure what you are asking in question 3 as you earlier indicate you don't see the windows partition under /media/username.