[ale] persistent mount points on removable devices

[Dow Hurst]

SuSE Yast2 will ask if it can identify a USB printer based on it's id.  
Maybe looking into how it does that would help you.
Dow


Jay Loden wrote:

>I have an iPod and an external CD drive and an external hard drive, all of 
>which I will be connecting to my laptop via firewire during my semester 
>abroad (starting Tuesday).  I would like to know if there is a way for me to 
>plug in my iPod, for example, and have it mount /mnt/iPod, or plug in my 
>external drive and have it mount '/mnt/maxtor' or what have you. 
>
>This way I can use things like gtkpod, etc to mount the drive and I will be 
>able to control where it mounts without having to manually specify.  (This is 
>on Debian 2.6.8)
>
>I don't need it to automount the drives, but I'd like to be able to, for 
>example, let gtkpod mount my iPod for me, which requires it to stay 
>consistent. I've noticed that if I remove a device and reconnect it, it often 
>comes up as a different block device...how can I get around this?  Can I set 
>labels and set fstab to mount by label? 
>
>-Jay
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