mounting local file systems ... Failed

[Tim Frost]

Ray,

On Fri, 2009-07-24 at 12:55 -0700, Ray Parrish wrote:

> Hello again,
> 
> The problem was the missing mount points on my file system. How those 
> disappeared I have no idea. I recreated /media/Personal etc... and all 
> is well now after a reboot.

Ubuntu uses /media for dynamic mounts.  It may be that /media was
re-created after an upgrade.

It may be safer to move these mounts to a directory that isn't affected
by upgrades/updates.  For example, I haven't seen any Ubuntu
documentation that refers to /vol, so have used that for permanent
mounts of local file systems that aren't part of the standard structure.

(When I look at what my file systems are used for, it might make sense
to have them somewhere under /var, but there is more risk of a clash of
name space :(


Another consideration:  These are NTFS (or possibly should be CIFS - but
that is a separate issue) file systems, and you use the 'user' option.
Is there a way of mounting  them under the user home directory, rather
than as shared directories (and does this matter on this system)?
> 
> Thanks for the reading references, I'll be spending some time on those 
> today. 8-)
> 
> Later, Ray Parrish


Tim

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Tim Frost <timfrost at xtra.co.nz>
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