[SOLVED] location of mount point and config file

ferrari · 10-10-2020, 07:56 PM

The same is explained in the ArchWiki reference.

andrewysk · 10-11-2020, 12:15 PM

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Originally Posted by frankbell

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

Just out of curriousity,

Why is your signiture like : Once you slack ....

Because of that, i purposely drop by slackware in youtube to take a look how is it special... lol it is a manual old linux..

Tonus · 10-11-2020, 09:02 PM

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it is a manual old linux..

Slackware gives you true power on your system. Btw follow the KISS principle.

sgosnell · 10-12-2020, 04:12 PM

My Debian install uses the disk label to determine the mount point. If there is no label, it uses the UUID. I therefore tend to put labels on my external drives, and they always get mounted to the same place without the need for fstab. I don't know if there is a config file that sets this, nor where it would be, because I haven't had sufficient curiosity to investigate it.

hazel · 10-13-2020, 04:51 AM

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Originally Posted by sgosnell

...they always get mounted to the same place without the need for fstab. I don't know if there is a config file that sets this, nor where it would be, because I haven't had sufficient curiosity to investigate it.

It's a systemd thing. systemd does mounts using mount config files; if there's an fstab file, it uses the data in it to create temporary mount files in /run but it can get the information from elsewhere too. Your installer might even have created some basic mount files for your hard drive.
https://www.freedesktop.org/software...emd.mount.html
https://www.freedesktop.org/software...automount.html

ferrari · 10-13-2020, 12:44 PM

I think sgosnell is referring to external media which is handled by udev/udisks. The user's desktop environment does the actual 'automatic' mounting when configured to do so.

lleb · 10-13-2020, 03:56 PM

df -Th

That is my goto command for seeing what is mounted, where it is mounted as well as other details.

man df

sgosnell · 10-13-2020, 07:26 PM

I was under the impression that the discussion was about random external drives, which would not have an entry in fstab. From what little I've read, it seems that udisks2 handles these. There is usually a setting in the desktop environment, I think, but I haven't used nearly all the possible DEs.