Tim wrote: > Andy Green: > >>YMMV but in KDE and Gnome in FC4 this stuff now works here >>automagically. The thing is recognized, a mountpoint like >>/media/USBDISK is created automatically, and at least a link to mount it >>placed on your desktop, > > > Do you know where it gets the default names from? I had some annoying > names used when connecting my USB bits (a flash drive, and a camera), so > I'd rather use something more sensible. Neither is really a "disk", and > they both got given the same names. I did find out that it'd use a FAT > volume label if there was one, but I couldn't find a way of setting one > in Linux. I had to put the USB flashdrive into a Windows box to name > it. You can use e2label to label ext2 and ext3 filesystems with a name, on USB sticks or not. For vfat, you can name the filesystem at creation time with mkfs.vfat -n blah, AFAIK that's it. At least dosfstools package doesn't seem to provide any other obvious way. -Andy
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