Context: Using Timeshift, I'm backing up my system to an external USB hard drive. I already have an entry in my /etc/fstab for the USB drive to auto mount on startup at path /wdusb (with label WDusb.) But Timeshift makes its own mount on the same partition at /run/timeshift/backup/ and overwrites my /wdusb path in Dolphin, when I click on the drive under Removable Devices in the side bar, that is.

I believe this is due to the fact that I now have two mount points for the same drive/partition in /etc/mtab:

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/dev/sdd1 /wdusb ext4 rw,relatime,discard 0 0
/dev/sdd1 /run/timeshift/backup ext4 rw,relatime,discard 0 0


Question: is there a way to change the path of the removable drive in Dolphin somehow?



Note: I'm in on an issue over on Timeshift's Github but, I don't foresee it being addressed anytime soon, so thought I'd see if I could work around it directly with Dolphin.

https://github.com/teejee2008/timeshift ... -751436799

Thanks!

I'm confused - you only want to change the path in Dolphin (not the actual path)? I'm sort of new, but shouldn't you change fstab or mtab? This might not help, but I will tell you what I learned: if you set both the "name" and the "label" of the removable drive to the same thing, then Dolphin will pick that up and mount it under that name. I've only been able to set both when I was creating the partition table in gparted, but there may be command-line methods to set those (depends on the file system used).

So it may be possible to change the name/label of your removable drive and Dolphin might pick that up as a new mount point (under whatever directory tree your linux distro mounts removable drives).

warnol wrote:I'm confused - you only want to change the path in Dolphin (not the actual path)? I'm sort of new, but shouldn't you change fstab or mtab? This might not help, but I will tell you what I learned: if you set both the "name" and the "label" of the removable drive to the same thing, then Dolphin will pick that up and mount it under that name. I've only been able to set both when I was creating the partition table in gparted, but there may be command-line methods to set those (depends on the file system used).

So it may be possible to change the name/label of your removable drive and Dolphin might pick that up as a new mount point (under whatever directory tree your linux distro mounts removable drives).

Thanks for the reply.

I don't want to change the path in fstab or mtab (mtab is generated and not to be edited, from my understanding; in part, it's generated from what's in fstab.) The path I have set in the fstab is the one I want to show in Dolphin and works fine otherwise. It's Timeshift that's the problem, in that is adds its own mount point (path) to mtab, meaning there are now two entries with the same partition location, but two different paths; and it's Timeshift's path that is being prioritized in Dolphin, as it is added to mtab last. This happens when I manually run Timeshift or Timeshift runs on its scheduled backup.

I want it the other way around but, until the Timeshift developers address the root cause, I was looking for a work around. Which I may have found and am in the process of testing. I'll report back if I find a suitable solution (no luck so far...)