On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 09:38 +0100, ed.temp.01@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > 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 > Hi I'm using kde and life is very neat Change the disk labels as required using e2label If they are fat type things then see http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2006/03/01/editing-fat32-partition-labels-using-mtools Edit the kde disk icon properties as required ie mount point. Also edit icon properties re read only, mount automatically etc "Safely Remove" Remove Disk and replugin On subsequent mounts the icon name will be disk_label and the mount point will be /media/disk_label. Keep KDE in the mainstream!!!!!! John
