Re: [opensuse] CD/DVD question

The problem with that, is that you have to redo it for every different CD/DVD you put in. Personnaly, I'd quite like a simple setup whereby my CD/DVDs are auto-mounted as /media/cdrom0, /media/cdrom1, USB stuff as /media/usb0, etc. Solaris has been doing this for, oh, over ten years. It mounts the CD under it's volume name, then creates a sym link from cdrom0 to the volume name. GTG

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M Harris >>> 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. -- Kind regards, M Harris <>< -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org