Hi, I have an external USB drive with a number of partitions on it. When I switch it on then a number of mount points appear under /media of the form /media/label where label is the partition label. I'd like to control this process, i.e. decide which partitions are mounted, which are mounted readonly and which are not mounted. I'd also like to change the mount point names to be more user friendly e.g. 'backup' I am guessing that udev is used to recognise the new devices and create the /dev entries. What decides to create the mount points and to mount the partitions? Ed