On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 03:03, Karsten Fischer wrote: > Easily. I put in a media called "Tax2005" and its is mounted > on /media/Tax2005, regardless of which drive > (DVD-ROM,CD-ROM,DVD/CD-Writer, CD-Writer) I use. And for your use that is a good thing. Been lurking on this thread and pondering. I think everyone is seeing a part of the elephant. I'd like to back up and try to see the whole critter. Way I see it there are a variety of competing visions here, none of which satify everyone. But when we boil it down we are looking at the problem of what to do with removable media. These are the factors I see going into the decision process: 1. The volume name 2. The device the media is inserted into. For this purpose we must count USB ports individually as devices, probably even allow for ports on hubs to be declared a seperate 'device.' >From this we have to have a way to decide where it gets mounted AND something so far left out of the discussion, which user/process/virtual machine owns it. No one solution can possibly cover every circumstance so we need a way to configure it. Some sample use cases that stress the current systems: 1. An authentication system that expects a user to insert a USB key into the left front panel USB slot before logging on. This case needs the key mounted in a fixed location. Post login the USB drive may or may not be available on the user's desktop. If we want it accessable it needs to be owned by the user on display hostname:0.0. 2. The system has two heads. One user logs onto the primary console and owns any media inserted into the internal optical drive or the front panel USB ports. A second user connects to the second head and has a USB keyboard/mouse. They own any media inserted into the rear USB ports (on a USB extension cord) or the external USB DVD recorder sitting in their workspace. Perhaps in the this case it might make sense to posit a ~/media directory and mount each user's volumes within. 3. Combine #1 & #2. 4. A Xen/VMWare/Vnc/etc virtual machine/session is given one or more devices. Currently when a CD is inserted it gets mounted by the native desktop, which has been known to be a major PITA when the intention is to use it in VMWare. Whether such a far ranging discussion is on topic for this list is a good question. -- John M. http://www.beau.org/~jmorris This post is 100% M$Free! Geekcode 3.1:GCS C+++ UL++++$ P++ L+++ W++ w--- Y++ b++ 5+++ R tv- e* r -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list