A `/home' directory is creatred in my `/media'?

Question

I downloaded a picture with Tor Browser and when the box appeared, I chose Desktop in order to save it there. But the picture was not on my Desktop. After searching for it, I found that there was another Desktop in my /media. And by doing:

me@me-K52JT:/$ sudo find -type d -name "Desktop"

I got :

./root/Desktop
./home/me/Desktop
./home/me/tor-browser_en-US/Browser/Desktop
find: ‘./run/user/1000/gvfs’: Permission denied
./media/me/5f2867ae-9b0a-428b-b960-a5e30020e0df/m/Desktop
./media/me/5f2867ae-9b0a-428b-b960-a5e30020e0df/m/snap/movie-monad/8/Desktop
./media/me/5f2867ae-9b0a-428b-b960-a5e30020e0df/m/snap/movie-monad/5/Desktop
./media/me/5f2867ae-9b0a-428b-b960-a5e30020e0df/m/snap/movie-monad/7/Desktop
./media/me/5f2867ae-9b0a-428b-b960-a5e30020e0df/m/tor-browser_de/Browser/Desktop

5f2867ae-9b0a-428b-b960-a5e30020e0df is a directory in my /media in which there is a home directory of my previous Ubuntu(before reinstall );

me@me-K52JT:/home$ ls 
b  me

In my previous install I had two users a & m. Now

/media/me/5f2867ae-9b0a-428b-b960-a5e30020e0df$ ls gives:

a  lost+found  m

I want to know:

What is that strange directory in my /media and why is it created?
Can I delete it without problem?

Ravexina · Accepted Answer · 2019-07-20T19:33:23.953

Your old installation of Ubuntu is still living on a partition and somehow it has been mounted, maybe you have clicked on that partition in your file manager.

/media is where partitions and removable devices will be mounted on automatically.

From man hier:

/media This directory contains mount points for removable media such as CD and DVD disks or USB sticks. On systems where more than one device exists for mounting a certain type of media.

If you delete /media or any sub-directory from there, it means everything that is living on that partition which has been mounted on /media will be lost.

And 5f2867ae-9b0a-428b-b960-a5e30020e0df is the UUID of your partition, you can also find it by running: sudo blkid or lsblk -o name,uuid.

If your partition had a label for example myPartition it would be mounted at:

/media/myPartition

When partition does not have any label it would be mounted using its UUID:

/media/049-349343

A `/home' directory is creatred in my `/media'?

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