On Friday 06 November 2020 05:22:44 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
Anno domini 2020 Fri, 6 Nov 05:14:10 -0800
Does this sound like what you describe?
That is exactly what happens with pmount. e.g.: /media/12.7MB ( sdb1 )
Nik
Somewhere online I had found some methods for forcing automount using my own custom mount points; but now with most of my secrets and tricks buried in a failed hard drive, I cannot tell you how exactly how I did it. It will take some searching to find it again.
In any case, now it works again, with one detail changed: instead of mounting external drives as /media/<user_name>/<custom_mount_point>/ -- now it has reverted to an earlier usage, namely just /media/<custom_mount_point>/ -- which is how I organized mount points in Kubuntu. When I changed from Kubuntu to Debian to Devuan, somewhere the <user_name> part got inserted, but only for external (USB) hard drives; for my 3 internal hard drives (besides sda1), everything remained the same throughout.
While I did not intend to change anything in my setup, somehow this caused all kinds of confusion; so I suspect it has to do with the installation of pmount or udisks2, or maybe failure to install those packages.
I will leave this to brighter minds to enlighten us, as it is a mystery to me, but I will be following this thread.
Bill