CDs mount to volume name

Michal Jaegermann michal at harddata.com
Thu Feb 9 05:28:25 UTC 2006


On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 09:31:19PM -0600, Robert Nichols wrote:
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> and as long as I can still use commands like "umount /dev/hdc"

This possibly you can - IF you will edit your /etc/fstab and add a
corresponding entry unless you plan to do that only as root.  In
this particular case you are lucky because /dev/hdc is not likely to
change.  But even here this is doubtful as changing mountpoints may
get you. 'gnome-mount -e -d /dev/hdc', when gnome-mount is
available, possibly may tide you over. OTOH with USB devices things
are not that simple as devices may get assigned differently on every
connection so you will have problems.

> and "eject /dev/cdrom1"

Chances are that this will not work.  Surely not a bare-bones
'eject' even if you have only one CD device.  If mountpoints will
change then in general you cannot guess in advance how a
corresponding /etc/fstab line is supposed to look.

> I don't see the issue affecting me all that much.

It looks like that it might affect you quite a bit.  Especially if
you have programs which are not used for hunting for their data on
removable media in unspecified locations.  OTOH this whole interface
is apparently still in flux.

   Michal




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