[ale] persistent mount points on removable devices

[Jay Loden]

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