Comment 19 for bug 101845

A temporary (windows like :P ) solution I use is:
unmount the drive/partition
delete the wanted folders in /media/
remount partition (or doubleclick the partition icon on left, in nautilus)

On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 1:42 PM, richard <email address hidden> wrote:
> I have the same problems with Hardy beta as well. Both my external
> drives, formatted FAT32 and my iPod are creating duplicate entries. I
> didn't have this problem with Gutsy at all and is now playing havoc with
> my backups and the syncing of my iPod with Rhythmbox. The only things
> that seem to be fine are my USB Flash Drives and my USB card reader.
>
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> Automounted Volumes mount points change
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/101845
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of a duplicate bug.
>
> Status in Source Package "gnome-mount" in Ubuntu: Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Whenever a removable volume is mounted, then unmounted, the mount point isn't deleted from /media, so when it is mounted again, a directory with a _ appended to the end is created.
>
> My 2 main examples:
>
> When I mount my ipod, it only ended up in /media/ipod the first time. The next time it ended up in /media/ipod_, then the next time /media/ipod__ . This is particularly frustrating because programs, namely gtkpod, look to /media/ipod for it.
>
> Same behavior when I mount and unmount my portable drive called "xbox". First it ends up in /media/xbox, then /media/xbox_ , etc.
>
> I can manually fix this by temporarily unmounting the device, deleting the directory, and remounting, but what fun is that?
>
> Using Feisty with all updates as of 4/2
>

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