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

[David Fletcher]

On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 17:51 +0100, Felix E. Klee 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?

I used mlabel to give names to my flash drives. Those are the names they
now appear with on my desktop as I plug them in.