[Discuss] Ubuntu USB Drives appending _ to folder

[Chris O'Connell]

any way to prevent this from happening?  I can see the benefit of this
behavior, but for my purposes it's rendering my backup script useless.

On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 9:37 AM, John Abreau <abreauj at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is the same behavior you would get if you unplugged the thumb drive
> without properly unmounting it, then plugging it back in; the old directory
> doesn't get deleted, and then the next time the system tries to mount the
> thumb drive, its name is already in use, so it has to come up with a
> different
> name for the new mount point.
>
> Maybe the thumb drive powers down while idle and the usb subsystem loses
> track of it, while there's still a process that has the directory open.
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Chris O'Connell <omegahalo at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi Everyone,
> >
> > I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 for a couple of Nagios boxes here in my office.
> >  I've written a backup script that compresses all of my configuration
> files
> > and copies them to a USB thumb drive each evening.  The exact path the
> > files are copied to is /media/Nagios_Backup
> >
> > About 6 months ago I noticed that the /media folder contained a folder
> > called "Nagios_Backup" and a folder named "Nagios_Backup_".  Much to my
> > surprise, I found that for some reason the directory name of the thumb
> > drive had changed to "Nagios_Backup_", and that my backups were going to
> > the old directory, which seemed to reside only on the hard disks.
> >
> > I adjusted the path of my backup destination to "Nagios_Backup_" and
> > assumed this behavior was just a fluke.
> >
> > Today I went in to check the backups and found three folders:
> > /media/Nagios_Backup
> > /media/Nagios_Backup_
> > /media/Nagios_Backup__
> >
> > For whatever reason, the thumb drive is now mounted with two underscores
> at
> > the end.  As a result my backups have not been saving to the USB drive.
> >
> > This situation is really annoying as I can no longer rely on my backup
> > script to copy files to the drive due to the changing path.
> >
> > Has anyone seen this before?  Anyone know why this is happening?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
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