Multiple copies of HDD

[architeuthis]

Good morning all.

I have a 4TB HDD that I use for media storage. I disconnect it fairly often and it seems that every 5th or 6th time I reconnect it shows up as a new drive (screenshot). How can I go about trouble shooting this issue? Is it related to a kernel upgrade? It happens at relatively similar intervals to kernel upgrades.

Thanks

Screenshot from 2018-02-09 11-00-36.png

[Mute Ant]

If, for some reason, you don't unmount and safely-remove a volume, the folder under /media/$USER/ doesn't get removed. Next time you connect it, the preferred name is already taken, so it gets a new one.

The mount points are just empty folders, so you can remove them quite safely with... sudo rmdir /media/$USER/*

If the extra folders are appearing all on their own, without you disconnecting the drive, it suggests a wobbly connection that looks like disconnection to Linux.

[architeuthis]

Worked perfectly. Thank you.

[catweazel]

sudo rmdir /media/$USER/*

Nice. I didn't know about $USER. It'll save a lot of typing instructions to modify commands with a user name. Thanks for the tip.