CDs mount to volume name

Karsten Fischer kfischer at bfki.net
Wed Feb 8 23:30:53 UTC 2006


Am Mittwoch, den 08.02.2006, 15:22 -0700 schrieb Michal Jaegermann:

> I still scratch my head what you are gaining by mounting removable
> media at some pseudo-random locations.  They are effectively random
> as a volume name is not apparent from a shape of some CD.  It may
> even be empty.  As it was noted on a desktop you have a label with
> that volume name anyway.
> 

Ease of use in the end, that is the gain, at least from a certain
perspective. And yes, on the desktop the volume label is present. So I
really would assume that somewhere in the directory structure this label
turns up, so that I can access the given volume without the knowledge
about on which physical drive it is actually inserted, it may be my
DVD-ROM, my CD-ROM, my DVD-Writer or even some pretty obscure device
which might even be as hotpluggable as hell. It simply doesn't make
sense to me that a volume on the Desktop appears differently from its
real mount point. Everything else is a bit like Windows, where
everything seems to be around drive C:\ or D:\ and so on. 

When I do insert a DVD into the drive I am certainly more interested in
its content than its physical appearance. 

--
Karsten Fischer






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