Here's the simple question: my external usb SATA hard drive automounts as /media/<incomprehensible number>.
I want it to mount as /media/sdb1 (i.e. using the kernel device node name), like it always used to.
Second question: in Dolphin, in the locations panel, the usb disk appears as "49.5 GiB Hard Drive". I want it to appear
as "sdb1" corresponding to the mount point name. (All my partitions are 50GB, so I'm greeted by dozens of identical locations
called "49 Gib Hard Drive" when I open Dolphin. )
Details: I'm on KDE 4.7, and evidently using udisks/udev for mounting/automounting. I can't label the disk(s), because
I don't actually have authority over the disk(s) that might be attached.
Someone suggested uncommenting the line
#GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true
in /etc/default/grub (followed by update=grub and reboot), but this has no effect on anything, as far as I can tell. Someone
else said the line should read:
GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID="true"
but that doesn't cause any noticable change, either. The syntax here is not a guess, what's the correct value? If this item
gets rid of the ugly numbers in the grub boot menus, I consider that a 'good thing', but this doesn't seem related to the
automount issue. It appears to me that the automount stuff is buried in the arcane syntax of *.rules files under /lib/udev/rules.d
and /etc/udev/rules.d. I shouldn't have to go there - it should be a KDE/Gnome option (or alternatively, an option to the start
command for the daemon in one of the start up scripts) to use simple mneumonic names for disks. Maybe there is one? If not,
why not? Anyone familiar with Knoppix? Names are simple there.
Stuart
I want it to mount as /media/sdb1 (i.e. using the kernel device node name), like it always used to.
Second question: in Dolphin, in the locations panel, the usb disk appears as "49.5 GiB Hard Drive". I want it to appear
as "sdb1" corresponding to the mount point name. (All my partitions are 50GB, so I'm greeted by dozens of identical locations
called "49 Gib Hard Drive" when I open Dolphin. )
Details: I'm on KDE 4.7, and evidently using udisks/udev for mounting/automounting. I can't label the disk(s), because
I don't actually have authority over the disk(s) that might be attached.
Someone suggested uncommenting the line
#GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true
in /etc/default/grub (followed by update=grub and reboot), but this has no effect on anything, as far as I can tell. Someone
else said the line should read:
GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID="true"
but that doesn't cause any noticable change, either. The syntax here is not a guess, what's the correct value? If this item
gets rid of the ugly numbers in the grub boot menus, I consider that a 'good thing', but this doesn't seem related to the
automount issue. It appears to me that the automount stuff is buried in the arcane syntax of *.rules files under /lib/udev/rules.d
and /etc/udev/rules.d. I shouldn't have to go there - it should be a KDE/Gnome option (or alternatively, an option to the start
command for the daemon in one of the start up scripts) to use simple mneumonic names for disks. Maybe there is one? If not,
why not? Anyone familiar with Knoppix? Names are simple there.
Stuart
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