Hotplug - how does it get the name?

[David Fletcher]

On Wednesday 16 Feb 2005 02:45, B Wooster wrote:
> I'm trying to unravel the process by which my USB SB Card Reader gets
> a name in /media - when I plug in this device, I see /etc/fstab gets a
> new entry - /dev/sda1 with /media/CANON_DC as the mount point.
>
> The Reader is not a canon, though when I first installed Fedora FC3, I
> did plug in a Canon camera in the USB port.
>
> I'm trying to figure out if I can change the word "CANON_DC" to
> something else, am assuming that the string CANON_DC is stored in some
> config file, but have not been able to find it yet...
>
> Any help/pointers on where to look for this appreciated...


I think the name of the mount point is obtained from the device itself. I've 
got a couple of ByteStor branded USB flash drives which produce a mount point 
named /dev/USBDISKPRO and also a volume of the same name when I plug them 
into a box running XP.

Dave F