Mount points for external hard drive

[Matthew Flaschen]

Job Evers wrote:
> I have an external hard drive connected via firewire.  I'm running 8.04. 
>     I'd like to have my disk mount somewhere besides /media/disk/ and I 
> also don't need it to show up on my desktop.  Does ubuntu use hald?  How 
> do I configure that?  What actually mounts the drive?  (I thought I read 
> something about pmount - but I don't have pmount installed)
> 
> Thanks,

I don't know about appearing on the desktop, but you need to label the
disk to keep it from mounting at /media/disk.

Matt Flaschen