I'm having issue with latest Ubuntu 12.10. Let me make it more clear.
I'm having the following partitions in my Laptop.
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 2048 39997439 19997696 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 * 40001850 81947564 20972857+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 81947565 123877214 20964825 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 123887614 976773119 426442753 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 123887616 333602815 104857600 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 333604864 543320063 104857600 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 543322112 753037311 104857600 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 753039360 976773119 111866880 83 Linux
I have also two users named "ms" and abc. Here ms is for administrative tasks and abc for my friends. When I mount any drive under "abc" user, I cannot access it under my other user "ms". Same as in the case with "ms" user. I found possible reason behind the issue. When I mount any drive under "abc" user, Ubuntu will try to mount it under "/media/abc/volume_name" instead of "/media/volume_name" . Same as in the case with "ms" user.
# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 19G 11G 7.5G 59% /
udev 1.5G 4.0K 1.5G 1% /dev
tmpfs 599M 896K 598M 1% /run
none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
none 1.5G 620K 1.5G 1% /run/shm
none 100M 92K 100M 1% /run/user
/dev/sda2 20G 172M 19G 1% /media/abc/TEST
/dev/sdb1 466G 353G 114G 76% /media/abc/F088F74288F7063E
/dev/sdb2 466G 318G 148G 69% /media/abc/New Volume
/dev/sda5 99G 94G 323M 100% /media/abc/Songs
/dev/sda6 99G 31G 63G 34% /media/ms/Films
Here, you can see that "TEST" was mounted under "/media/abc/TEST". When I try to access the already mounted partition named '/media/abc/TEST" in my "ms" session I'm getting the following error.
How to fix this error? Is it a bug? Is there any way to fix this without modifying the underlying file-system structure?