<div dir="ltr">When mounting a drive, it has to be given a mount point. Normally this is a regular folder on the root file system.<br>For non-removable storage an entry would be created in fstab and the 2nd field would indicate the mount point.<br><br>When the drive is unmounted, the folder remains and will just appear as a normal folder.<br>Modern distros will have udev rules to create these dire<span class="gmail_default" style="">ctories and mount drives in a "hotplug" way, many of these will also clean up on dismount to avoid confusion. </span><div><span class="gmail_default" style=""><br></span></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="">Ubuntu 20 is modern and based on the info you provided, it would seem a usb drive labeled 0403-0201 was plugged in, but perhaps not cleanly removed.<font face="verdana, sans-serif"></font></span><br><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">try </span>dmesg|grep media if this has occurred since the last boot. otherwise, poke around in /var/log/syslog|messages<div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 8:49 PM Grand Rapids Linux Users Group <<a href="mailto:grlug@grlug.org">grlug@grlug.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p>the external usb disk I use for rdiff-backup is only 500 GB and
the only other USB disk I use is just 8 GB.</p>
<p>what spooked me a bit was that the mysterious directory at
/media/eric showed the same amount of free space (629GB) as the
main hard drive.</p>
<p>I tried to umount it with no success. Then from the file browser
I sent it to trash, which worked. Doesn't look like I messed
anything up.</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>EB <br>
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Users Group wrote:<br>
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On Tue, Jan 17, 2023, 7:50 PM Grand Rapids Linux Users Group
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<div>Usually directories like that are USB thumb drives that
have auto mounted. Can you unmount it? Have you added any
new USB devices that might include mass storage?
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