HDDs automounted erratically get trailing "_" (underscore) or not as /media/... path

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The drives get disconnected or the system crashes and the mount point gets stuck as a folder. When the drives go to mount again that folder prevents the drive from using that mount point name. One option is to safely remove (unmount) the connected drives, manually delete the folders in /media and then plug the drives back in. Optionally, and probably better for the long haul, would be to switch from the automounter to manually configuring the mount to /mnt using autofs which is much more graceful with mounts…

Mounting network shares with autofs (alternative to fstab)

This how-to describes how to mount your network shares via autofs. Autofs should be as performant as fstab based mounting but has the advantage that your shares are mounted on demand which also should give you more reliability in case of network interuptions. First install the autofs package sudo apt-get install autofs If you already have mounted your shares already via fstab comment out that line in fstab and reboot. For this how-to we are going to use a directory for each server, if you wa…

To fix the mount point change without much fuss you can use path substitution…

[HowTo] Repairing File Paths with Path Substitution

This guide is intended only as a more in depth instruction for manipulating file paths either for broken links or performance modification. For other applications of path substitution you can consult Kodi’s wiki on the subject. At its core, path substitution is a simple concept. You are simply adding <from> and <to> tags to an advancedsettings.xml file that specify a part of a file path that will get replaced, and the new path that will be replacing it. Kodi will use this whenever it is trying …