[ale] persistent mount points on removable devices

[Christopher Fowler]

I have SuSE 9.1 and it installs removeable media on /media/...  

I do not see a process that is running that manages this.  Maybe a
kernel driver?

On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 02:06, Jay Loden wrote:
> I have an iPod and an external CD drive and an external hard drive, all of 
> which I will be connecting to my laptop via firewire during my semester 
> abroad (starting Tuesday).  I would like to know if there is a way for me to 
> plug in my iPod, for example, and have it mount /mnt/iPod, or plug in my 
> external drive and have it mount '/mnt/maxtor' or what have you. 
> 
> This way I can use things like gtkpod, etc to mount the drive and I will be 
> able to control where it mounts without having to manually specify.  (This is 
> on Debian 2.6.8)
> 
> I don't need it to automount the drives, but I'd like to be able to, for 
> example, let gtkpod mount my iPod for me, which requires it to stay 
> consistent. I've noticed that if I remove a device and reconnect it, it often 
> comes up as a different block device...how can I get around this?  Can I set 
> labels and set fstab to mount by label? 
> 
> -Jay
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