CDs mount to volume name

Fri Feb 10 10:26:55 UTC 2006

On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 10:35 +0100, Karsten Fischer wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, den 09.02.2006, 10:46 -0600 schrieb Chris Adams:
> 
> > As others have pointed out, volume labels are not unique.  However,
> > device names are unique; use them for mount points and let software that
> > cares about labels sort out how to present them.
> 
> But then, the device names are not used for mount points. Whenever I use
> 'cat /proc/devices' I do not see something like 'cdrecorder' in it. If I
> use 'hal-devices', it gets even more cryptical. Could somebody give me a
> clue, since I think the mountpoint /media/cdrecorder had been
> arbitrarily chosen by somebody and could easily be named something
> like /media/place-to-burn-cd-rom?

http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#MEDIAMOUNTPOINT