[NTLUG:Discuss] OpenSuse 13.1 USB mount point

Christopher Cox cjcox at acm.org
Sun Aug 30 21:14:35 CDT 2015


On 08/30/2015 05:43 PM, Leroy Tennison wrote:
> The programmer-priests are trying to hide everything from us in an attempt to
> turn Linux into Windows, wonder if there are money transfers taking place ;-)
> (just my opinion)?

The move to placing user mounted things into a directory that could be user 
owned was deemed an important security thing.  So now such mounts are done at 
/run/media/<username>/<user-owned-meta-name>/...etc...

You may also want to see:
https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/484495-Enable-classic-mounting-in-12-3-%28to-media%29

which will show you how to make things like they were (adjust for distro's udev).




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