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endolith
Asked: 2021-03-29 08:30:17 +0800 CST

External drive keeps getting mounted under /media/ even though I have it in fstab under /mnt

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I have 3 physical external USB drives. All are btrfs. Two are combined into a single volume, the other is not. The two volumes are both in /etc/fstab to be mounted at /mnt and that works fine, but the combined one also keeps getting automatically mounted in /media, like a removable USB flash drive, and I don't know how to turn this off.

/etc/fstab:

# / was on /dev/sda6 during installation
UUID=619c1750-218e-4432-bb13-732a9c9192b5 /               ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       1
# /boot/efi was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=3449-605A  /boot/efi       vfat    umask=0077      0       1
/swapfile                                 none            swap    sw              0       0

UUID=31abab38-ca1f-4541-9141-9506098d832a /mnt/butter auto nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 0
UUID=3f8633ef-aad6-4444-87b6-831a11c3067e /mnt/Int_Butter auto nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 0
UUID=2679ca57-e8e3-4b23-8574-69d751d62dbc /mnt/Risky auto nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 0

All 3 are mounting to /mnt/ as they should, but butter is also being mounted to /media/ as if it were a USB thumb drive.

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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    If you are using Ubuntu desktop then it comes with an application which automount usb by itself, anyway if you want more info about it please check https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Mount/USB

    As the link states you can change behavior in dconf-editor.

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