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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