On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 10:26:54 +0200, Michael Prokop wrote:
In other words, I want to mount my HD/USB devices not by UUIDs but by labels. Eg. the disk partition labeled os12 would always mounted on /mnt/os12.
That's what I already mentioned and demonstrated:
Oh, forgot to mention I tried it before post. Guess I need further setup for it to work...
Mounting by label already works (see my demo). An entry like:
LABEL=foo /mnt/foo auto .....
in fstab would (IMO) cause more problems than the current:
Totally agree. I hate entries like "LABEL=..." in fstab.
/dev/hda2 /mnt/foo auto .....
does.
Is it the new grml0.8 feature? That's exactly what I want. grml0.7 used to be
/dev/hda2 /mnt/hda2 auto .....
The implementation would be something like:
# for label in /dev/disk/by-label/* ; mkdir /mnt/$(basename $label)
hmm.... that won't work. As shown in my example. /dev/disk/by-label/ is only populated when a disk is mounted. So you didn't see the full list of my os partions.
Now for USB pens:
It should be taken care of by pmount-hal. According to Florian Kulzer:
,----- | ... you will not need fstab entries for pluggable devices anymore. | Devices will be mounted at the correct mount point automatically. Even | better, if you use the "pmount-hal" command then the devices will be | mounted by their volume label so that you can address each medium | unambiguously and independent of the order in which you attached them. | This is also fully integrated in e.g. KDE and Gnome. `-----
pmount-hal requires running dbus/hald. Not an option for the default behaviour of grml for me at the moment.
grml's udev solution for usb pens works for me. Just run 'mount /mnt/external1' and usually that's it. Plain and simple. Mounting by label is possible anyway and pmount-hal exists on grml too. What are missing therefore? :)
The default behavior of the grml's udev solution for usb pens works for you but might not work for others. For example, I have 2 usb pens, one has no partition, so I can't use /mnt/external1; whereas the 2nd has 3 partitions, in which grml's solution is not enough.