Whack-a-mole device assignments

[William Hooper]

Robert said:
> I'm running FC3, kernel 2.6.9-1.667 and thoroughly confused by hal &
> friends. I have a USB disk drive (a real drive) and a 256MB flash drive.
> Consider  this snippet from /var/log/messages, with comments inserted:
>
>
> # First, I insert the flash "drive", followed by the Maxtor drive
[snip]
> Jan 20 07:32:27 mavis fstab-sync[3532]: added mount point
> /media/LEXAR_MEDIA for /dev/sda1
[snip]
> fstab-sync[3722]: added mount point /media/NO_NAME for /dev/sdb1
> Jan 20 07:32:51 mavis fstab-sync[3726]: added mount point /media/OTOT
> for /dev/sdb2
[snip]
> # Then re-insert, but in reverse order:
> Jan 20 07:35:05 mavis fstab-sync[4225]: added mount point /media/NO_NAME
for /dev/sda1
> Jan 20 07:35:05 mavis fstab-sync[4229]: added mount point /media/OTOT
> for /dev/sda2
[snip]
> Jan 20 07:35:23 mavis fstab-sync[4405]: added mount point
> /media/LEXAR_MEDIA for /dev/sdb1
[snip]
> This doesn't really matter when I manually mount the drive(s) from a
> terminal 'cause it all gets worked out with /etc/fstab: [rj at mavis ~]$ mount
> /media/LEX*

Because the mountpoints are consistent.

> ...but it sure plays hell with trying to use device icons on the KDE
> desktop because apparently a snapshot of the fstab is taken when the
> desktop device is created and that's that. Perhaps someone else has
> already fought this battle and won?

Sounds like a KDE bug to me.  The mount points are consistent so that is
what KDE should be using.

-- 
William Hooper