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How to configure the default automount location?

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I recently upgraded from Mint 12 to Ubuntu 12.10 + Cinnamon. I have an external usb drive that when I plug it in, automatically mounts to /media/[username]/Backup/. Thing is, under Mint, it didn't include the [username] portion. It just mounted to /media/Backup. My question is, how do I switch back to that format? I don't need the drive mounted under my username. Just under media.

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answered 1 Year ago bleger · Accepted Answer

It's not the kernel but udisks2 where the automount location is hardcoded. You can't configure it.

The original udisks2 uses /run/media/username but Ubuntu patched it to use /media/username/.

I guess Mint 12 like Ubuntu 12.04 comes with udisks1 which uses just /media/.

If you really need the automount disks to be mounted in /media/ you could try to replace /media/your_username with a symlink pointing to /media:

sudo rmdir /media/your_username

sudo ln -s /media /media/your_username