On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 11:15:59AM -0700, Mark Hull-Richter enlightened us: > >Because in linux, everything mounts under one directory tree. So to mount > >something in that tree, the "directory" needs to exist first. If that drive > >isn't mounted, the mountpoint will still exist, and can hold data by > >itself. > >Unless you set up something like automount that would create the > >mountpoint, > >and mount the drive, and after you disconnect, would remove the > >mountpoint. It > >would have to check if the drive was there before it created the > >mountpoint, > >and stop if it wasn't. Linux has unix roots, and it pre-dates things like > >removable drives. It comes from a time when drives were large and > >expensive, > >and stayed in place once attached. > > > > As far as I can tell, all USB drives are handled by automount. My > /media is empty unless there is something attached to the machine that > "should" live there, like a USB drive or a DVD/CD in one of my DVD > drives. Or you run an rsync command with a destination in /media/foo :-) Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263