Confused about /media

[Paul Tomblin]

I have an external USB drive with two partitions, one ext3 for backing
up my Linux box, and one FAT for when I want to move files between my
different computers.  Formerly I had entries in /etc/fstab so that I
could mount them as needed, but now I find that when I boot they're
mounted in /media automagically.  That's ok, I guess, but I have a
couple of questions about that.

1. The ext3 partition is /media/usbdrive, which is fine.  The fat
partition, however, is /media/I__E_L_____ (it looks like that on a
text display, it looks worse on the console - all question marks and
those square blocks you get with unicode characters when the font
can't handle them).   Is there a way to give that partition a more
meaningful name?

2. If I need to power down the drive or unplug it, do I need to
unmount it, or is whatever mounted it also responsible for
automatically unmounting it?

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