Invisible Mount Points?

[wmrobins]

Hi all,

In Feisty I had a mount point in the /media folder that I use for Truecrypt "drives". After upgrading to Gutsy, that folder seemed to have disappeared. After a little digging and trial and error, I figured out it is there (I can mount it, see it, and access it through a shell), but Dolphin and Konqueror can't see it. Even if I run them as root, they can't see it or access it. If I enter the location in the address bar, I get and error that says the file does not exist.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,

wmrobins

[SheeEttin]

Re: Invisible Mount Points?

View > Show Hidden Files?
If that's enabled, try editing (as root) /media/.hidden .

And make sure you're at /media, not media:/.

[wmrobins]

Re: Invisible Mount Points?

Thanks for the suggestion. But, unfortunately, the mount point (TC) is not hidden. Here's a little more information.

wmrobins@bills-lt:/media$ ls -l
total 64
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 2007-09-01 00:48 cdrom -> cdrom0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-09-01 00:48 cdrom0
drwxrwx--- 1 root plugdev 16384 2007-11-06 17:17 sda1
drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 16384 1969-12-31 16:00 sda4
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 28672 1969-12-31 16:00 TC
wmrobins@bills-lt:/media

And here's my fstab.

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sda2
UUID=ca55e263-ec9c-4922-88ba-aecadb8026cd / ext3 nouser,defaults,errors=remount-ro,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 1
# /dev/sda1
UUID=643CE48D3CE45B94 /media/sda1 ntfs defaults,nls=utf8,umask=007,uid=0,gid=46,auto,rw,n ouser 0 1
# /dev/sda3
UUID=d0ef0844-71d5-4831-aee2-576accd69740 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,atime,noauto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0
<device> <mount\040point> auto nouser,atime,noauto,rw,nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
#/dev/sda4 /media/sda4 auto users,atime,auto,rw,nodev,exec,nosuid 0 0
/dev/sda4 /media/sda4 vfat umask=0000 0 0


Shouldn't TC (my mount point) be in the fstab file?

[wmrobins]

Re: Invisible Mount Points?

Okay, SheeEttin. You got it. I just didn't read it right. I was looking in "system:/media/" in the GUIs not /media.

So, now my questions are:

Where is (or what is) system:/media/ ?

Why does TC not show up there?

And lastly, how do I get it to show up there?

[SheeEttin]

Re: Invisible Mount Points?

It's some special interface to removable devices, I think.
I try to avoid it, using instead the little window that appears when you plug in a device or the mount command itself.

[Teunis]

Re: Invisible Mount Points?

Although I can understand your quest for the lost mount point I'd for the time being not spend too much time locating it.
In your case I'd just create some new mount points.

I made several folders/directories under /media called tc1, tc2 etc for mounting Truecrypt volumes and they did survive the update from Feisty to Gutsy.

They are found as /media/tc1, /media/tc2 etc. and do not show up in f- or mtab till actually mounting a volume.

[wmrobins]

Re: Invisible Mount Points?

Teunis,

Although I can understand your quest for the lost mount point I'd for the time being not spend too much time locating it.
In your case I'd just create some new mount points.

The disappearing mount point was never a show stopper, but it did have me stumped for some time.

As I posted above, I in Dolphin was looking in "system:/media/" in the GUIs not "/media". In Konqueror I was looking in "media:/" which is where I used to find it. But.... (shrugging) It changed. Go figure.


wmrobins