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I have very little experience with linux, so maybe this is a dumb question :)

I run Ubuntu 24.04 on a machine, and I had an old HDD in a usb-case which I mounted using fstab. Worked fine, but I decided it wasn't appropriate for my purpose and removed it (physically and from fstab).

But it still shows up in the file manager? What am I missing?

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's mounted to /srv

I suspect that your /srv had already existed before you mounted that drive for the very first time, and there were even some files in /srv.

The mounting of the drive has made these "old" /srv files invisible. But it has not deleted them. Now you unmounted the drive, and they have come back like Zombies :)