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About 8 hours ago, I asked this question and I got a great answer:
In terminal, what is the path of my HDDs?

  • /media/user1 was owned by root.
  • /media/user1/FooDrive was owned by user1.

The answer to my first question was perfect. That is what I expected. But, that also seemed strange.

  • I created a second user account, user2.
  • sudo ls -la /media/user1
  • sudo ls -la /media

FooDrive had disappeared.
There was no /media/user2 directory.
Deleting the user2 account did not make FooDrive appear again under /media/user1 again.

What happens with regard to disk ownership, and the path to my disks, when there are 2 users?

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  • Yes, you can by using mount command.
    – Pilot6
    Jul 18, 2015 at 12:51
  • @Pilot6 I kind of new I needed to invest time to learn how to mount disks. But, I'm really more interested in the path to my disks with 2 user accounts. I edited my question.
    – david.t
    Jul 18, 2015 at 12:53

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When you click a drive in Nautilus, it automatically mounts to /media/user1/FooDrive. "user1" is the name of user you are logged with.

If you logout and login with another "user2", the drive will be still mount to the same place. And user2 will not see it.

You can fix this by running sudo umount /media/user1/FooDrive if this was the mount point.

Then if you click it again from user2, it will be mount to /media/user2/FooDrive.

You can always setup a permanent rule where to mount your drives in /etc/fstab. That is preferred if you have multiple drives and multiple users.

And you can always manually mount drives where you like by

sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /media/user2/Foodrive

if your partition is /dev/sdb1. Instead of /media/user2/Foodrive you can use any other existing directory.

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  • I'm new to Linux, so I'm more interested in understanding than fixing. After deleting user2, I now just have 1 user account. I re-booted. There are still no disks under /media/user1, but the disk is accessible from the GUI interface. So, before I remount, where is my disk?
    – david.t
    Jul 18, 2015 at 13:08
  • Did you click the disk in Nautilus? After you do it, it must be it /media/user1`. It does not mount automatically before you try to open it.
    – Pilot6
    Jul 18, 2015 at 13:14
  • yes. It did remount. I think I get it now. That is very interesting. thank you.
    – david.t
    Jul 18, 2015 at 13:30

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