usb external hard disk double icon show

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MasterN
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usb external hard disk double icon show

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some time usb external hard disk double icon show on linux desktop. like usbdisk, usbdisk1, usbdisk2 etc. but in actual there is only one external harddisk attached with system.

if anyone have any idea, kindly help me.
amirtai
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Post by amirtai »

Hi

They are not icon but mounting point directories. All file system has to be mounted before it's used in Linux. Whenever you plug-in USB, OS creates a directory on your desktop and mount USB in to that directory.

Hope that's answer your question.

Regards

Amir
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