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Removed USB-drive still shows in file manager (feddit.dk)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have very little experience with linux, so maybe this is a dumb question :)

I run Ubuntu 24.04 on a machine, and I had an old HDD in a usb-case which I mounted using fstab. Worked fine, but I decided it wasn't appropriate for my purpose and removed it (physically and from fstab).

But it still shows up in the file manager? What am I missing?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

It's mounted to /srv which is not empty, and I can also still browse some of the folders on the removed drive, which is also confusing :) I don't understand how that's even possible.

Edit: It does not show up as a drive, but the mount directory is still there with a folder structure and a single file.

Edit2: I deleted the folder which seems to have done the trick. Still confused about how and why it was still accessible......

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It's mounted to /srv

I suspect that your /srv had already existed before you mounted that drive for the very first time, and there were even some files in /srv.

The mounting of the drive has made these "old" /srv files invisible. But it has not deleted them. Now you unmounted the drive, and they have come back like Zombies :)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

When you mount something into a directory that already exists, the drive mount replaces the original contents. When the drive is unmounted, the original contents are restored.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Does lsblk say it was mounted to /srv? If the drive doesn't show up in lsblk that means that /srv is non-empty and those files exist on whatever drive your root directory is on