Re: [arch-general] USB mounted into "wrong" directory

It would appear that on Apr 4, Tom Gundersen did say:

On Apr 4, 2012 11:14 AM, "David" wrote:

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Uh, is there any way to revert to old mapping? I do not like the new one.

You'd have to check with udisks. My guess is that while reverting might work for the time being /media is going away in the future as the old implementation had issues (namespace and privacy in particular). If you have concerns about the new approach I suggest raising them sooner rather than later, before things become hard to change.

Pardon me for jumping in here, but you just reminded me that I read somewhere that /media is going away. Can't say that THAT in it self bothers me, since I don't use it. But I've been not allowing anything to auto-mount usb devices for so long now that I've forgotten what (if anything) I had to do to prevent it in Arch {or for that mater any of the other Linux that I multi-boot...} My method of dealing with usb sticks/drives etc, is that if root hasn't found the time to set up a custom fstab entry based on either LABEL=UniquePartitionName for approved usb drives, or /dev/disk/by-id for approved usb sticks, then only by getting root to proactively do something about it do I want the durned thing mounted at all. My fstab method allows for custom mount points where the user simply issues a "mount mountpoint" and/or "umount mountpoint" command to access the approved device. I usually do this from mc where the <alt>+<enter> binding will paste the mountpoint dirname to the command line... Anyway my only concern with the changes that are driving the demise of media is that I'm hoping they won't result in automatic reactivation of auto mounting tools that I don't want, don't use, don't understand, and mostly don't remember how to disable... Do you know if I'm going to have to go there again??? -- | ~^~ ~^~ | <?> <?> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^ J(tWdy)P | \___/ <>