CDs mount to volume name

[Antonio Olivares]

--- Alan <alan at clueserver.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 08:36 +0800, John Summerfied
> wrote:
> > alan wrote:
> > > The gnome-volume-manager now mounts cds to
> "/media/{volume_name}", instead 
> > > of "/media/cdrecorder".
> > 
> > It happens, I think, with all filesystems on all
> mountable devices, and 
> > I think it's not actually gnome-volume-manager but
> something in hotplug 
> > or one of its allies. Happens on SUSE 10 too.
> > 
> > For me, the entire idea of autmounting things is
> broken. For example
> > 1. I insert a CD-RW to reuse. Do I want it
> mounted?
> > 2. I plug in a USB2 drive. Do I want its five or
> ten partitions mounted? 
> > Probably not, more likely one.
> > 3. I'm working at a virtual console (I have twelve
> defind, sometimes use 
> > more, and also use screen). Do I want anything
> mounted and opened at the 
> > desktop? Probably not. Working through a stack of
> CDs is a pain. I used 
> > to do things like this:
> > mount /mnt/cdrom && ls -l /mnt/cdrom; eject
> /mnt/cdrom
> > 
> > Hint: read the instructions for preparing for a
> network install of FC & 
> > RHEL.
> > 
> > Now the wretched things are likely to get opened
> on the desktop. Worse, 
> > I've had ISOs get opened when mounted too.
> 
> Yeah, but at least they got mounted to a consistent
> place. Now they get
> mounted to the name of the volume.  What happens
> when you have multiple
> volumes of the same name?
They get named 
/media/VOLUMENAME-1,
/media/VOLUMENAME-2,
...,

>  What happens when you
> have older installers
> that expect something like /mnt/cdrom or
> /media/cdrecorder for each of
> many discs.
>
We will have to find a way to deal with that.  
> 
> This is going to cause a lot of grief.
> 
> 
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