Good day!
When I try to mount an external USB device or partition, antiX-Mountbox ignores Mount point, I have entered.






Also when I click Umount button, it does not unmount partition/device. Simply closes without doing nothing.

You don't appear to have a directory called /media/external to mount your disk to, but you do have a /media/sdb1, which appears to be mounted.

Well, I suppose, when I write directory name in"Mount point:", antiX-Mountbox should create this directory and then mount selected device/partition onto it. Otherwise, why this"Mount point:" option exists, if program always creates mount directory only automatically?

Yes, I agree. The scenario begs the question"Why does this mount point option display an EDITABLE inputbox?"
It exists because the app isn't sufficiently sophisticated ~~ doesn't automatically lookup & generate an available mountpoints picklist.
Instead, lookup doesn't occur until/unless you click"List" and, from the info displayed in that separate dialogbox,
we're required to manually type or paste a namestring into the entrybox.

When I recently touched the app's code to fix a bug, I added onscreen advisement that the operation is easily handled via rox-filer or spacefm

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but was not motivated to further"enhance" this proprietary (and redundant) moutbox utility.
Frankly, I would favor retiring/removing the app and, instead, coach users to read the rox and/or spacefm docs (or use commandline)

Another"dumbed down" WIP proprietary utility which is worrisome to me:
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I advocate teaching a man to fish, rather than"giving a mouse a cookie". Catering to the sort of user who can't be"bothered",
or regards it too much a chore to edit autostarts file to add a"someprogram &" line is an unsustainable endeavour, IMO.

skidoo wrote: Frankly, I would favor retiring/removing the app and, instead, coach users to read the rox and/or spacefm docs (or use commandline)

Well, until automounting works correctly, and there is a separate utility for unmounting (safe remove) devices, I think, this application is not important. Anyway, having buggy or confusing application preinstalled is bad practice. I think such applications should be either fixed, or removed from system, but removed only if they are not important and/or better alternatives exist.

have you disabled automounting? because it looks to me like the automount system has already mounted the devices you want to mount.

you can disable automount in the control center (and you might possible need to disable it in spacefm if you use spacefm-desktop, due to a conflicting setting, which I'm working on fixing.).

dolphin_oracle wrote:have you disabled automounting? because it looks to me like the automount system has already mounted the devices you want to mount.

Yes, automounting was disabled.
Today rechecked again this issue:
1. Disabled automount, then rebooted PC

2. Tried to mount using antiX-Mountbox, again entered mount point was ignored and unmount option does not work.

So I 100% sure that antiX-Mountbox contains bugs and should be fixed or removed!

you are right.

I took a look at the code and it only uses the Device line for mounting, but it uses the Mount Point line for unmounting.

That unmount there has never worked for me. I use the one in the taskbar. Or thunar.