Unique names for UMS devices in /media/

[Tom Eastman]

Jon wrote:
> Tom Eastman wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> There's a tool called "PyGTK Storage Device Manager" available as pysdm 
> in the universe repository which does exactly this. It provides a GUI 
> for udev rules - allows you to match a device by name, model, vendor or 
> bus and perform actions such as creating a link with a specified name 
> when the matching device appears.
> 
> Screenshots at http://pysdm.sourceforge.net/ (although they don't show 
> the rule definition dialog) or just 'apt-get install pysdm' and take a 
> look yourself.
> 
> Having said that, some of my devices seem to mount with sensible names 
> by themselves - some do, some don't. Maybe it's something I setup a 
> while back but I've forgotten about... nothing appears in /etc/fstab 
> though and I know I've never learnt to write udev rules.
> 
> Jon
> 

Thanks guys, it turns out that just having descriptive filesystem labels 
is a good place to start :-) Although I'll also have to check out this 
PySDM thingee too.

Cheers!

	Tom