USB drive "ghost mount"

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I somehow managed to unplug my USB pen drive in such a way that now I have the following mount points:
/media/USB Stick 8 (the original one)
/media/USB Stick 8_ (the one appeared after unsafe unplug and re-plugging)

When trying a cd to ‘USB Stick 8’ using the terminal I get a “permission denied” message. However I can see both shares as “auto-mounted” when using SMB access on Windows, while ‘USB Stick 8’ cannot be accessed from there as well.
Now what I would like to have is getting rid of the ‘USB Stick 8_’ mount point respectively SMB share, and get the content back as the ‘USB Stick 8’ mount point. Is there a way to achieve that?

Edit: Using the file manager in the OSMC GUI it still shows the drive correct as ‘USB Stick 8’ and I can browse it normally from there.

2

Power down
Unplug the stick.
Power up
sudo rm -r /media/USB\ Stick\ 8
Plug in the stick

3

Worked like a charm :+1:
Just as a side note: I had to reboot the Pi once again after the rm command, in order to get the right share view in Samba as well

5

Actually you shouldn’t need any manual rm command to fix this.

Just reboot - during start up “ghost” mount points are deleted automatically.