Ugly mount point name used for removable media

[Toby Dickenson]

The names of mountpoints in /media/ created by Breezy were taken from the filesystem label on a removeable media. very nice.

Dapper (on kubuntu) does not.... mount points are /media/sdb1 etc.
This happens when plugging in the device, or when clicking on the kde desktop icon.

Interestingly I do still see the filesystem label using:
$ hal-device |grep desired_mount_point

I also still get the correct mountpoint used when mounting the device using pmount-hal.

Im happy to investigate further, but Im not sure how this is supposed to work.

[SilentPh03nix (silentph03nix)]

I'm seeing this behaviour as well. This makes things very difficult to have a consistent mount point between GNOME and KDE. I use this with an external hard drive that I don't have plugged in all the time but do use between GNOME and KDE.

[Donatas Glodenis (dgvirtual)]

I think this is an important usability issue, that should be solved somehow.

[Frode M. Døving (frode)]

This seems to be fixed in current Edgy.

[Ylan (ylan-segal)]

I found something that might be helpful for people affected by this bug:

When I plug in a USB drive in Kubuntu 3.06 (with KDE 3.5.4 ), get the described behaviour, it mounts to:

/media/sdb1

However, if I left-click on the desktop icon I see that the desired mount point is set to:

/media/filesystem_label

There is a checkbox underneath. When selected, the USB drive now mounts to both mountpoints, which at least for me, solves the problem.

[Toby Dickenson (toby-tarind)]

Confirmed fixed in edgy, and 355 on dapper

[Andrew Ash (ash211)]

Great. If it's a problem later, just let us know. Thanks for helping make Kubuntu better.