I bet you have a bunch of stale mount points in /mnt, right?

[jafadmin]

Did you ever notice that sometimes you create work in /mnt/sd?1 and it vanishes for no reason? Wanna know why?
Stale mount points. As far as Linux is concerned they are still a legit file directory even if no devices are mounted on them. What to do? Simple. Get rid of stale mount points and you won't put stuff there.

I use a link to this tasty snock* in my Startup directory to clear the essential computing surfaces when I first boot:

delete-stale-mnts:

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#! /bin/bash
#
# Remove stale mount points in '/mnt' - jafadmin
#
RAW=$(ls -d /mnt/*)

for Line in $RAW
do
	if [ ! -z "$(mountpoint $Line | grep not)" ]; then rm -R $Line; fi
done

*I am NOT responsible if this wipes out your crochet videos or homework! Use this at your own risk!

[s243a]

*I am NOT responsible if this wipes out your crochet videos or homework! Use this at your own risk!

This is actually a good warning. I once deleted a mount point that looked empty when viewed from the file manager but wasn't and actually pointed to a good chunk of my system!

[enrique]

Interesting concept. If the folder does not exist we can not save in wrong place. Thanks

This reminds me that I have to repair my BusterDog. I did put extra libraries. fredx181 did in fact explained it to me how not to do it. Point is that I have duplicate libraries in charge of my volume mounting. One mount on /media the other on /mnt. I know been lazy to build my self another Busterdog.

[jafadmin]

The script will not remove active mounts.

Puppy is the only Linux I have seen so far that doesn't automatically clean up '/mnt' on shutdown.

[elephante_of_randomness]

i need to look into this. i've already encountered the issue. and i prefer to keep a clean system.

[elephante_of_randomness]

/*
what language?
*/


#! /bin/bash
#
# Remove stale mount points in '/mnt' - jafadmin
#
RAW=$(ls -d /mnt/*)

for Line in $RAW
do
if [ ! -z "$(mountpoint $Line | grep not)" ]; then rm -R $Line; fi
dones

[Keef]

That would be Bash, that would. It's a shell script, just a text file to run in a terminal.
Open a terminal where ever the file is, then type:

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./whatever-you-have-named-the-file 

...then watch your crochet videos disappear.