-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 07/07/2010 01:22 PM, Ankur Sinha wrote: > hi, > > I'm using a Seagate USB hard drive which is divided into 3 partitions, 2 > ext3 and one NTFS. There is new very weird behavior when it comes to > directories in the /media folder. > > The partition names are: > Ankur_backup, Stuff, NTFS Temp > > at times when I plug in my external HDD, the /media dir has > > Ankur_backup, Stuff, NTFS Temp (all empty) > > AND > > Ankur_backup_ , Stuff_ , NTFS Temp_ ( with the files in them) > > Is this a known issue? I *always* safely remove the HDD. The trouble is > that I can't exactly reproduce what causes these bogus folders to stay. > At times, safely removing the HDD and unplugging the HDD leaves no dirs > in /media, but again, sometimes it leaves blank dirs. > > I came to realize this when rhythmbox failed to find my collection (all > my music is in the HDD Ankur_backup partition). I checked to see if it > was properly mounted and found the Ankur_backup and Ankur_backup_ > directories. > > Any help/pointers would be appreciated. At the moment, I manually remove > the empty folders if I see them, and then plug in my HDD. > > regards, > Ankur > I've noticed this as well with my flash drives. (F13 fully up to date) Kevin - -- Get my public GnuPG key from http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x7D0BD5D1 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkw01BcACgkQ6w2kMH0L1dEyrQCeJNRels9We3YERao/NlEypltp fNYAmgPacV/PL0dyVfWAiAQCnEFRqcxg =U5R1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test