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From: »Q« on 22 May 2010 21:50
In <news:85qfgtFj88U1(a)mid.individual.net>,
Mark Warner <mhwarner.inhibitions(a)gmail.com> wrote:

> Craig wrote:
> > On 05/21/2010 08:14 PM, »Q« wrote:
> >> In<news:85ok12FoueU1(a)mid.individual.net>,
> >> Mark Warner<mhwarner.inhibitions(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> This stuff has become so "seemless" that the distinction between
> >>> mounted and unmounted is kind of blurred anymore. Heck, the first
> >>> time I ran it, I opened up the file manager and didn't see them
> >>> anywhere, so I manually created a mount point under /mnt and stuck
> >>> 'em there. Didn't realize it would do it automagically with the
> >>> pointy clickity GUI desktop thingy until I revisted it last night.
> >>
> >> With a livecd, I don't care, but it's annoying with a new
> >> install. I need each USB drive and stick to have the same
> >> mountpoint every time it's mounted. So with a new install, I have
> >> to write a udev rule for each device, recheck the volume labels,
> >> create mount points that match those volume labels, and match them
> >> up in fstab. (Can't mount from the command line without fstab and
> >> can't mount consistently in KDE unless the mountpoints match the
> >> labels.)
> >>
> >> While they were making things "seemless" it would be nice if they'd
> >> tossed in some GUI for pairing drives with mountpoints.
> >
> > Whoa... GUI's aside: Don't HAL Unique Device Identifiers or Unique
> > unit ID (UUID) solve this? You know, the string in the fstab like
> >
> >> UUID=15f2abe8-94a6-4b52-bde6-f2191d7ed111
> >
> > Or is this some other issue?
>
> It's probably an issue with those bizzarro distros he uses. I mean,
> c'mon. Gentoo??? Arch??? FFS...

Heh, it's KDE. Ubuntu makes it *harder* for me to fix because
everything's been through the Debian obfuscation process before getting
its shiny plastic coating.
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