KDE has changed where it mounts my USB drives

[devnulljp]

Since updates last week, KDE now automounts my usb drives to /media/<username>/mountpoint instead of just /media/mountpoint
Any idea how to change this behaviour back to the old way?

[SteveRiley]

This has been normal for Ubuntu for some time, according to their wiki page on USB mounting. KDE 4.10 did not follow this because it relied on udisks1 via libsolid4, which mounts removable devices on /media. KDE 4.11 relies on the newer udisks2 which changes the behavior. By default, it mounts devices on /run/media/$USER but Ubuntu patches it to use /media/$USER.

To return to the prior behavior, run Kate elevated to root. Type the following line, and then save the file as /etc/udev/rules.d/99-udisks2.rules:

ENV{ID_FS_USAGE}=="filesystem", ENV{UDISKS_FILESYSTEM_SHARED}="1"

Now reload the udev rules:

sudo udevadm control --reload

I can confirm this works, I just tried it on my machine.

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[devnulljp]

Thanks!