Automatically mount USB flash drive to "/media/a"?

[Goh Lip]

On Tue, 04 Jan 2011 00:51:08 +0800, Felix E. Klee <felix.klee at inka.de>  
wrote:

> I have set up Ubuntu 10.10 for someone who is used to accessing USB
> flash drives with "mtools". Example (a: -> /dev/sdb1, b: -> /dev/sdc1):
>
>   mdir a:
>
> Now, I showed how things work in Ubuntu. Once a drive has been plugged
> in, it is accessible under "/media":
>
>   /media/some_cryptic_label
>
> But he doesn't like that. Is it possible to tell Ubuntu to instead use
> mount points as follows?
>
>   /media/a (first USB drive)
>   /media/b (second USB drive)
>   ...
>
> By the way, with the "flush" mount option, is it still necessary to
> unmount a drive before pulling it? With "mtools", there is no
> mounting/unmounting.
>

Use labels? Would this help?

http://embraceubuntu.com/2006/03/01/editing-fat32-partition-labels-using-mtools/

But, by the way, I just label all my disk and usb partitions using gparted  
and
have no problem doing what you're trying to do, I think.

Regards - Goh Lip
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