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Underscore being appended to mounted disk name after Ubuntu upgrade

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Mar 15, 20262886 views
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Problem

I have Upgraded Ubuntu from version 9.10 to 10.04. Now when I mount any of my extra hard disks the drive name gets an underscore appended to it, as shown below. Which obviously messes up all my pahts. How do I prevent\correct this?

Error Output

/media/<drivename>_

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Fix for: Underscore being appended to mounted disk name after Ubuntu upgrade

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Look through your /media folder. My guess is that even when no drive is plugged in, its mountpoint exists. remove this (empty) directory (with the drive unplugged, just to be safe), with . Hopefully that will fix it.

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