Re: Re: Reformatting a USB drive

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On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 11:15:59AM -0700, Mark Hull-Richter enlightened us:
> >Because in linux, everything mounts under one directory tree. So to mount
> >something in that tree, the "directory" needs to exist first. If that drive
> >isn't mounted, the mountpoint will still exist, and can hold data by 
> >itself.
> >Unless you set up something like automount that would create the 
> >mountpoint,
> >and mount the drive, and after you disconnect, would remove the 
> >mountpoint. It
> >would have to check if the drive was there before it created the 
> >mountpoint,
> >and stop if it wasn't. Linux has unix roots, and it pre-dates things like
> >removable drives. It comes from a time when drives were large and 
> >expensive,
> >and stayed in place once attached.
> >
> 
> As far as I can tell, all USB drives are handled by automount.  My
> /media is empty unless there is something attached to the machine that
> "should" live there, like a USB drive or a DVD/CD in one of my DVD
> drives.

Or you run an rsync command with a destination in /media/foo :-)

Matt

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Matt Hyclak
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Department of Social Work
Ohio University
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