CDs mount to volume name

Karsten Fischer kfischer at bfki.net
Wed Feb 8 09:49:05 UTC 2006


Am Mittwoch, den 08.02.2006, 10:30 +0100 schrieb Tomas Mraz:
> On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 16:01 -0800, alan wrote:
> > The gnome-volume-manager now mounts cds to "/media/{volume_name}", instead 
> > of "/media/cdrecorder".
> > 
> > This is a problem.  It means that any program that looks for a consistant 
> > mount point will not find it.  gtkalog fails.  Multi-disc installers will 
> > most likely fail.
> +1
> 
> > Is there a way to disable this behaviour? 
> Please someone tell me that there is!
> 
> > Is there a recommended method to locate the cd mount point that I am not 
> > aware of?
> > 
> > Is there a way to kludge things so that legacy software and installers 
> > will not fail?
> > 
> > Is there a way you can make up your fscking minds about mount points?
> > 
> Who made this decision so I can personally flame him to death?
> ;)
> -- 
> Tomas Mraz <tmraz at redhat.com>
> 

Why should you? I am pretty comfortable with that right now; but then I
also use a Mac, where this kind of mounting seems to be quite normal and
does not cause trouble. Anyway, a mount with the name like "Doom 4 for
Linux Disk 2 of 2" sounds much more descriptive than "cdrom", now does
it? 
;)

Karsten Fischer




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