I successfully mounted a NTFS USB disk drive under /mnt/ via an USB hub. However, it was not showing on the X Window desktop.
I read somewhere that drives don't automatically shown on the desktop unless mounted under /media/
True enough, when I changed the mount point to /media/ the desktop saw the drive as /media/xxxxxxxx where xxxxxx was the UUID. So I used ntfslabel to give it a more meaningful label.
But is it possible to leave the USB drive mounted under /mnt/ but get to desktop to see it?