Hi

When I plug my lg mp3 player into my pc it automounts as /media/----------- - however it works fine
---------- - is not a name I would like to use how do I change it?

My usb stick mounts as /media/disk and this is fine

I am using slackware 12

Thanks in Advance

I think you just need to change the label of the FAT32 filesystem.

How would I do that not in fstab as I am using the automounting feature?

It seems like the hal/d-bus mechanism mounts removable media under /media/$label_of_filesystem
e.g.: the first slackware install cdrom gets mounted under /media/Slack12d1
So you will have to change the label on the filesystem itself.

BTW, is there a way to, say, automatically create symlinks like /media/cdrom -> /media/Slack12d1 ?

try setting it up in fstab, according to Pat, HAL will honor fstab, so if I want /dev/hdb1 to always mount in /media/cdrom, I'd put it there

If you have the mtools package installed you can use "mlabel" to label a fat32 filesystem.

You can see how udev sees the drive with:
udevinfo -q env -n /dev/sd##

You can use "sudo tail -f /var/log/messages" to monitor what device it is assigned to when you plug in your player.

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If you install mtools, you may need to edit /etc/mtools.conf to assign a drive letter to a device. I added these lines:
Be sure to use minfo first to check that it is the correct device:
Create a label with:
sudo /usr/bin/mlabel d:newlabel

Then if the filesystem on the device is assigned to /dev/sdc1, you can use:
sudo /usr/bin/mlabel d:

I tried this out before posting. The filesystem didn't have a label before I used the mlabel program. Now when I insert it, it is mounted on /media/DOCS automatically.

I've done this for larger filesystems but not for pendrives. There are some problems with this. First of all you need to use either "UUID=" or "LABEL=" in /etc/fstab. Not a device like /dev/hdb1 because the next time you insert the device, it may not be /dev/hdb. It may be /dev/hdc instead. Also, you need to use the noauto option so that when you boot and it isn't inserted, you won't have the boot process fail. I use "uid=" and "gid=" options to have exclusive access, combined with the "user" option, I can mount it as a normal user. However HAL doesn't automount it for me. This may be distro dependent based on the contents of the /etc/udev/rules.d/ config files and whatever hal helper program or script is called in the run+= entry. This will be different for each distro.

Since UUID= or LABEL= needs to be used anyway, might as well just label the filesystem and be done with it.

A custom udev rules file to create persistent device nodes/symlinks for the device plus entries in /etc/fstab will work just fine.

Thanks for the replies I will give udev rule a shot later tonight and I will let you know how I went

I did the label option as described by jschiwal. It seems to work fine

Thanks alot