On Friday 06 November 2020 00:35:03 BorgLabs - Kate Draven wrote: There was a much earlier thread, originally started by deloptes (I believe), under this heading: "Auto-mount no longer auto-mounts (TDE mediamanager)" In response to this thread, I mentioned that suddenly some of my external drives were creating their own weird mount points, for example: /media/Elements_25A1 /media/External_HDD____ /media/Mass_Storage_Device /media/My_Book_________ /media/<some_new_name> /media/<user_name> /media/USB_Storage (Note that I always create custom mount points for all my hard drives, so that they don't keep changing on me if they somehow get unmounted. These points did not obey my rules in fstab, but suddenly everything is more or less back to normal.) Does this sound like what you describe? Bill

On Friday 06 November 2020 05:22:44 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: 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

{snip it all!} You should be able to force a specific mount point just by adding a UUID line to fstab or cryptab. I believe (okay, can’t remember) that will also stop the "device inserted .."-dialog. Note: These have been modified from my actual entries, so use only as a guide, do not copy/paste. Copy/paste will most likely fubar your system. (Especially if your external drive is formatted something other than ext4.) Examples: UnEncrypted: - ADD to /etc/fstab UUID={huge UUID number} /media/michael/hdsda ext4 defaults,noatime,nofail 1 2 Encrypted: - ADD to /etc/crypttab lesda /dev/disk/by-uuid/{huge UUID number} /root/.luks/keyfile.sda luks,nofail - ADD to /etc/fstab /dev/mapper/lesda /media/michael/hdsda ext4 defaults,noatime,nofail 1 2 See the last LUKS post I made for more details on encrypted. Best, Michael