CDs mount to volume name

Karsten Fischer kfischer at bfki.net
Thu Feb 9 09:03:33 UTC 2006


Am Mittwoch, den 08.02.2006, 17:04 -0700 schrieb Michal Jaegermann:
> On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 12:30:53AM +0100, Karsten Fischer wrote:
> > Am Mittwoch, den 08.02.2006, 15:22 -0700 schrieb Michal Jaegermann:
> > 
> > > I still scratch my head what you are gaining by mounting removable
> > > media at some pseudo-random locations.  They are effectively random
> > > as a volume name is not apparent from a shape of some CD.  It may
> > > even be empty.  As it was noted on a desktop you have a label with
> > > that volume name anyway.
> > > 
> > 
> > Ease of use in the end, that is the gain, at least from a certain
> > perspective.
> 
> Specific examples, please.  Or you have to be kidding.

Easily. I put in a media called "Tax2005" and its is mounted
on /media/Tax2005, regardless of which drive
(DVD-ROM,CD-ROM,DVD/CD-Writer, CD-Writer) I use.

And no, I'm certainly not kidding.

--
Karsten FIscher




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