Re: [PLUG] Adding new drives to fstab

[Matthew Rosewarne <mrosewarne@inoutbox.com>]

On Wednesday 19 December 2007, Art Alexion wrote:
> One last question.  This is not so much to get it to work so much as the
> best practice as it may affect programs such as kscd and k3b.

I'm not sure about kscd (it's antique!), but k3b uses HAL directly to find 
drives, so it won't be affected by changing device names.

> Should I put entries for them in /etc/fstab instead, and with 2 devices,
> what should I mount them on?  That is, can I rename the default
> /media/cdrom0 and its symlink /media/cdrom to, say /media/dvd0 with a
> symlink /media/Memorex and /media/dvd1 with a symlink /media/Samsung?  Does
> it make a difference that the Samsung is SATA and the Memorex is IDE?  Or
> should I just let hal handle it?

You should probably leave the fstab alone with regard to removable disks and 
let HAL do the work.  I'm not sure how Suse handles it, but you might want to 
look for the "pmount" command.  If you need to refer to a specific device in 
some application, you should use the /dev/disk/by-id directory.  If you 
absolutely need to know that a specific device gets mounted to a specific 
place, you can add an entry to fstab like:

/dev/disk/by-id/idOfTheDrive	/media/someFolder	iso9660,udf	noauto,user	0 0

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