Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3135 mails)

[M Harris <harrismh777@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 09 March 2007 22:55, Stevens wrote:
> I have some programs that require something like /media/cdrom
> or /media/dvdrecorder to work, but Suse 10.2 reads the volume
> i.d. and uses that as the mount point, ie /media/SOME_Program.
>
> What do I do to make those programs work with the new dynamic
> naming convention?
        Create a symbolic link...

        ... a symbolic link allows a file to be referenced by another name (even from 
another directory) without changing the original file location or name.

        Change directory into /media   ( cd /media )  as root.

        Use the following command to create the symbolic link ( I will use your 
example names ):

                ln -sf SOME_VOLUMEID cdrom

        The -s switch makes the link symbolic, and the -f switch forces the command 
to remove any existing links by that name... be careful----  cdrom is the 
linkname and SOME_VOLUMEID is the target.

        This will create a symbolic link under /media that will appear when listed 
( ls -al ) as the following :

                cdrom  ->  SOME_VOLUMEID

        Now, apps that need to read /media/cdrom will actually be 
reading /media/SOME_VOLUMEID.

        What might happen though is that an app might need to read  /mnt/cdrom... and 
you can still create a symbolic link to do the job.

        Change directory into /mnt as root and use this command:

                ln -sf /media/SOME_VOLUMEID cdrom

        This link will look like this when /mnt is listed:

                cdrom  ->  /media/SOME_VOLUMEID

        Now an app needing to find the cdrom (Redhat style) under the /mnt filesystem 
will be able to read the /media/SOME_VOLUMEID that was mounted Suse style.




        


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Kind regards,

M Harris     <><
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