Karsten Fischer wrote:
Am Mittwoch, den 08.02.2006, 15:22 -0700 schrieb Michal Jaegermann:
I still scratch my head what you are gaining by mounting removable
media at some pseudo-random locations. They are effectively random
as a volume name is not apparent from a shape of some CD. It may
even be empty. As it was noted on a desktop you have a label with
that volume name anyway.
Ease of use in the end, that is the gain, at least from a certain
perspective. And yes, on the desktop the volume label is present. So I
really would assume that somewhere in the directory structure this label
turns up, so that I can access the given volume without the knowledge
about on which physical drive it is actually inserted, it may be my
DVD-ROM, my CD-ROM, my DVD-Writer or even some pretty obscure device
Mostly, people have one, maybe two, optical drives. Those who care have
little problem recalling that cdrom0 is the top one, cdrom1 the bottom
one (or whatever applies).
Those who don't care, of course don't care so the same convention can
apply without causing confusion or inconvenience.
which might even be as hotpluggable as hell. It simply doesn't make
sense to me that a volume on the Desktop appears differently from its
real mount point. Everything else is a bit like Windows, where
_why_ does it matter to you that the two names are the same? Would you
feel differently if you were working entirely at a bash prompt?
everything seems to be around drive C:\ or D:\ and so on.
When I do insert a DVD into the drive I am certainly more interested in
its content than its physical appearance.
and if you're working at the commandline and it mounts at /dev/dvd I'm
guessing you will find that less confusing than guessing what the
blessed volume's internal label us. For most of _my_ CD and DVD
collection, probably all, there is _no_ way of telling by looking at it
what the internal label is.
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John
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