| Art Alexion on 19 Dec 2007 05:47:46 -0800 |
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On Wednesday 19 December 2007 00:44:15 Matthew Rosewarne wrote: > 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. If you just want to play an audo CD in X, kscd is great. Lightweight and supports CD-TEXT (for homemade CDs) and CDDB. Docks in the tray. What more can you want? > > > 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. Home PC; Kubuntu Gutsy, but thanks for remembering. > 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 Thanks. I'll see what happens and use this for reference if I need to. Attachment:
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