WatchUbuntu keeps doing me favors that I really wish it would not.
The latest one is that when I plug in a USB drive, it mounts it as:
/media/7419-EA6C
Or whatever other unique label that particular USB drive has. Bad Ubuntu! I don't want that. My backup script expects /media/disk and that's what I want, no matter which USB drive is inserted. I have lots of them that I use in round-robin fashion for backups.
How do I get any USB drive that I insert to mount as /media/disk like it use to be? Half an hour of searching did not turn up any way to revert to the old behavior.
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I know enough to turn this machine on & make foolish comments.This just popped into my head from the ether. Do you recall someone saying years ago that the computer should be as easy to use as a TV remote?
Which button do I hit to turn on the TV?lol
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This doesn't work?
http://askubuntu.com/questions/1644/mounting-a-usb-disk-in-a-permanent-location
Or this (there is a reference to another thread as well):
http://superuser.com/questions/53978/ubuntu-automatically-mount-external-drives-to-media-label-on-boot-without-a-u
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Patrick says
why do you keep blaming ubuntu for things it has no control over?
7419-ea6c is name of the volume. stick that usb drive in any machine and it will show the same name.
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I blame Ubuntu because it changed behavior, and has no obvious way to revert to the way it used to be.
It was much better when a USB drive appeared as /media/disk. Who cares about the name of the specific USB drive? It's completely useless and simply makes all scripts that reference USB drives completely unportable. It's like you're in a workshop and you need a hammer, and you can see it and point to it, but you can't have it unless you ask for the serial number of that specific hammer and you are not allowed to say "just get me the fucking hammer".
mell says
That does not work.
I just need to figure out which silly script assumed I would want some random useless volume name like 7419-EA6C instead of a consistent sensible name like "disk". Then I will destroy that silly script.
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What about this:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RenameUSBDrive
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It doesn't say how to get the old behavior back, where it would mount any USB drive as /media/disk
That's all I want to do.
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Here's another example of what I mean:
When you insert a DVD in a Linux computer, it shows up as /media/dvd or some other perfectly logical general name.
You don't have to figure out the exact name of that one particular DVD and type it in so that your DVD-playing software can know where the DVD is mounted in the filesystem. That would be stupid.
And yet the new Ubuntu USB mounting scheme is actually that stupid. It requires that you know the unique and unguessable name of that one particular USB drive before you can know where to look for it in the filesystem.
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What about network mapping or a RAID approach? If you can create a virtual "drive" with maybe a batch file to associate each of your USB drives with it, then use the virtual drive address. It's imperfect but converts the daily annoyance of an unwanted "feature" into a one-time problem-solving puzzle. You might think of it as a security feature, since you wouldn't want a hacker substituting a strange USB drive to run away with your scripted backup.
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Patrick says
you should know your device configuration; this includes the name of the volume.
ubuntu should not make up a random name to name devices which is what you're asking for.
you're completely wrong on this. i could give many scenarios where this scheme you love so much is completely broken.
you're asking ubuntu to allow you to be lazy (even though it's wrong), instead of doing the right thing.
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Patrick says
What did you do to cause Ubuntu to change behavior?
Also, you can make a symlink from /media/disk to your new name. I would think the new system should be better anyway as now less chance of getting your back up media confused.
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StillLooking says
I installed the latest Ubuntu OS on my new laptop. I regret that. I should have stuck with the old Ubuntu.
StillLooking says
I would still have to type in the new name each time I use a new flash drive.
Before, the USB was always at /media/disk and that is how it should be.
curious2 says
Yes, I could make some script that figures out which newly created path corresponds to the USB drive I just inserted, and I'll probably have to do that, but it's just pointless work because the Ubuntu people decided not to allow the old easy and intuitive naming.
Hysteresis says
Screw the "right thing". Laziness is one of the three virtues of a great programmer:
http://threevirtues.com/
The computer exists to do my work. Not to make me do work.
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Yet still another reason to use Fedora.