I see /etc/fstab is identifying drives by some unique data (UID=blah blah).

Is there a way I can run a program to identify drives on my system at the moment and assign a mounting point for them? Or do I have to dig into editing the fstab thing by hand?

Thanks!

yea, i don't have a FC machine close by but if you go into the system menu you can get the partition editor then edit the partition and give it a mount point.


== By hand Method ==
Im using Suse right now but i can look in these dirs, everything is links to the old hdd names.

ls -l /dev/disk/by-id
ls -l /dev/disk/by-path
ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid

I forget but I think fedora names the dirs differently but grab one of the UUID names from the fstab and run `find /dev -name $UID-You-Grabbed` then check around there for the others. Then you can use the UUID names in your fstab by hand. If its a device node then it gets harder, either you have to know the major minor numbers to find the disk or you have to search the old dev names for those numbers...

That's what I was trying to avoid... editing fstab by hand.

Windows just auto mounts stuff, no need to edit a fstab.

I'm showing off this system to try to get my wife and (adult) kids to try it out.

In my experience, linux "auto mounts stuff".

In both KDE and gnome, if you plug in a USB drive, after a moment it appears on the desktop.

This is generally managed by udev, and you can change the default behaviour by writing udev rules