Unique names for UMS devices in /media/

[John Dangler]

On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 12:12 +1300, Tom Eastman wrote:
> Hey guys,
> 
> I have several different USB Mass Storage devices (cameras, MP3 players, 
> memory sticks and removable hard drives).  All of them are correctly 
> mounted in /media/ as 'usbdisk' or something similar.
> 
> What I would like, though, is for each one to have its own directory 
> name.  For example, my mp3 player to come up as '/media/iriver' and my 
> camera to come up as /media/fujifilm' or something like that.
> 
> I know this can be done on some level, but I'm not sure how deep I have 
> to go.  Whether it's something to do with HAL, or udev, or somewhere else.
> 
> What do I need to do to get this working?
If I'm not mistaken, it may be as simple as creating the mount point
with the name you want, and then use mkdev (or some other dev utility)
to setup the name and associate with the mount point.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 	Tom
> 
>