USB disks directorys

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Emanoil Kotsev wrote:

> Art Alexion wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Pablo L. Berdaguer
>> <plberd-kubuntu at yahoo.com.ar> wrote:
>>> I upgraded to KDE4 some days ago.
>>>
>>> I have a usb HD and it works just fine... but I want to make a little
>>> tweak.
>>>
>>> Whenever you the device notifier mounts the disk it mounts it in a
>>> /media/disk directory... or disk-1, or disk-2... depending on what's free
>>> at that moment.
>>>
>>> That behaviour prevents us users to create links to the contents of the
>>> disk, because the directory may change each time the disk is mounted.
>>>
>>> In KDE3 I could change that and force a folder for a partition just by
>>> changeing the name of the icon in the desktop... But now I can't do that
>>> any more and I can't find anywhere to configure that.
>> One suggestion is to find the UUID of the disk and create an entry in
>> /etc/fstab
>>
>>
> 
> for some reason the UUID label option is not working with KDE for me (may be
> it's working only on boot) or I'm just missing something, but  here I found
> a way to make usb disk mount to a specific directory. I think it's required
> that the directory is under /media
> 
> I have posted this to related discussion on debians user list
> 
> 1) with sudo vol_id -u device get the UUID from the usb drive partition you
> want to edit (device is the file of interest i.e. /dev/sdb1)
> 2) In the KDE -> 'System Settings' go to advanced and click 'Disk &
> Filesystems'
> 3) switch to administrator by clicking on the admin button at the bottom +
> password etc. - so now you are admin
> 3) click on the drive partition you want to mount 
> 
> 3a) select the mount point /media/usb_XXXX in your case, or write down
> something meaningful i.e. /media/usb_data_1_partition_1
> 3b) click by UUID and the UUID should be the same with the one you get in 1)
> 3c) click enable at start (optional)
> 3d) Slect "Mount Permission" (optional)
> 3e) click OK
> 
> 4a) edit /etc/fstab replace UUID= as shown below for the UUID which you get
> in 1)
> 
> /dev/disk/by-uuid/<UUID_FROM_STEP_1> /media/usb_XXXX auto
> users,noauto,atime,rw,nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
> 
> 4b) save and close
> 
> voila it all works


You could also label your usb disk and/or partitions. Detailed 
instructions are found on:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RenameUSBDrive

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