i think i have a brain freeze @ the moment... any suggestions are welcomed:
The ideal outcome:
mount to the default location, either first partition of the USB drive or all partitions into corresponding subdirs, e.g /media/usb/part1, /media/usb/part2

Situation:
there is a generic usb drive or for this matter any device (usb/ndd/sdd) with one or many partitions.
I want to have an easier way to mount/umount the device then "su-", check for partitions and mount.

What i have done:
a. dug out old udev scrips that map devices to a link e,g /dev/cardreader/SD*
b. in case of one partition i'll have /dev/cardreader/SD1, in case of 2 partitions - /dev/cardreader/SD1, /dev/cardreader/SD2
c. blindly staring @ fstab with semi-retarded ideas of writing 10^12 lines for each possible partition.
d. gave up and posted a question here in hopes of help

Typically a USB drive just has one FAT partition and you mount it like:
You can get the actual partitions on /dev/sdb (say) and loop over them in a script:
The loop can make a directory for each partition and mount it as you wish.

Thank you . so nothing in fstab can do the "magic"?

If you know the partitions in advance you can have them in fstab, but fstab can't do variables.