[SOLVED] location of mount point and config file

andrewysk · 10-10-2020, 05:12 AM

1.
/home and / are configured in this file that located at this location below,

/etc/fstab
but where is the mount point (such as /run/media/user/) ?

2.
in /run/media/<user> are located the mount point of temporary usb storage
but where is the config file of it ? there should be files such (fstab ) as above right ?

Turbocapitalist · 10-10-2020, 05:20 AM

Which distro is this about, including version?

syg00 · 10-10-2020, 05:25 AM

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there should be files such (fstab ) as above right ?.

Wrong. Do a search on fhs. Note that this (fhs) is ignored as often as observed.

andrewysk · 10-10-2020, 05:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Turbocapitalist

Which distro is this about, including version?

I am using arch based linux. to be precide, endea linux.

Code:

$ uname -r
5.8.14-arch1-1

hazel · 10-10-2020, 05:43 AM

Read the man page for pmount. This is the command that file managers use to mount plug-in devices on temporary directories. These are typically devices that are not in fstab.

andrewysk · 10-10-2020, 05:52 AM

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Originally Posted by hazel

Read the man page for pmount. This is the command that file managers use to mount plug-in devices on temporary directories. These are typically devices that are not in fstab.

@hazel
where is pmount manual page located?

Code:

$ man pmount
No manual entry for pmount
$ man pmount
No manual entry for pmount

There is no

Code:

pmount

in my os

hazel · 10-10-2020, 05:58 AM

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Originally Posted by andrewysk

@hazel
where is pmount manual page located?

Universal rule: if you can't find a man page on your system, google it. Put in "man pmount" and see what comes out. You may not have the command but your system certainly has the facility.

andrewysk · 10-10-2020, 06:51 AM

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Originally Posted by syg00

Wrong. Do a search on fhs. Note that this (fhs) is ignored as often as observed.

I have took time to read thru FHS on
https://appuals.com/filesystem-hiera...ard-explained/
and
https://geek-university.com/linux/fi...-standard-fhs/
It did not answer my question.

andrewysk · 10-10-2020, 06:56 AM

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Originally Posted by hazel

Universal rule: if you can't find a man page on your system, google it. Put in "man pmount" and see what comes out. You may not have the command but your system certainly has the facility.

Good idea. Never cross my mind of google search when i see "man" :0p
according to google:
pmount ("policy mount") is a wrapper around the standard mount program which permits normal users to mount removable devices without a matching /etc/fstab entry.

Ya, so.. however does it not require to have a config file in text form that user can "cat" them to see the content ? How do i know what is mounted or modify the mounting of those temporary usb devices ?
Does installing pmount package of any good ?

hazel · 10-10-2020, 07:23 AM

To know what is mounted at any time, open a terminal and type mount. Using the mount command in this way without any arguments gives you a list of all the mounted systems.

andrewysk · 10-10-2020, 10:21 AM

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Originally Posted by hazel

To know what is mounted at any time, open a terminal and type mount. Using the mount command in this way without any arguments gives you a list of all the mounted systems.

Why not just use lsblk ? it is neat.

hazel · 10-10-2020, 10:44 AM

There's always more than one way of skinning a cat.

rnturn · 10-10-2020, 04:09 PM

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Originally Posted by andrewysk

Why not just use lsblk ? it is neat.

Granted, it is neat. But... it doesn't include remote (i.e., NFS) filesystems or the mount options like "mount" does or the filesystem utilization like "df" does.

You can control where pluggable devices are mounted but you need to look at the /var/log/messages file (or the systemd logging subsystem via journalctl(1)) when you plug in such a device and take down the information displayed and then you can go into the udev configuration, set up a rule, and add the appropriate record in /etc/fstab to control where your USB drives are mounted. If you're mostly doing GUI-oriented work, you won't need to get into that---or want to. File managers are picking them up automatically nowadays---Dolphin sees my camera's SD card as "EOS_DIGITAL" as soon as I plug it in. I stopped messing with defining things in udev a number of years ago. I haven't missed it though it was sort of fun setting it up for things like music players, etc. back then.

HTH...

ferrari · 10-10-2020, 04:50 PM

It is typically udisks/udev (and the user's desktop environment) that handle detection and mounting of external media....

More info here...
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php...media_(udisks2)

frankbell · 10-10-2020, 07:39 PM

A web search for "/run/media/user" turned up this: https://forums.opensuse.org/showthre...-gt-media-quot