I don't think that's correct. At least in KDE, it will automount to /media/disk(-n) [n would be a number, if there are multiple unlabeled disks]
thats actually configurable. If you right click on the desktop icon that appears when you plug the drive in (assuming it does) you can alter the mount point to whatever you want. Then in the future whenever you plug the device in, it will get mounted at that location.
Chris
