On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 10:35 +0800, John Summerfied wrote: > Paul wrote: > > > > FC5 broken? > > Funny I use it every day as a desktop. > > I run twelve virtual consoles, and often work through ssh even when in > the same room. > > I want mount points created when I plug in a USB disk. I don't want it > mounted, and I especially don't want it open on the desktop (which I > might not be looking at). <SNIP> > > It's worse for optical media (but SUSE has that wrong too). on Windows, > a CD or DVD is always d: or e: or whatever for that particular > configuration. Until recently, on Linux it was always /cdrom (Debian) or > /mnt/cdrom (RHL) or similar, then /media/cdrom. Now it's > /media/<columelabel>. > > I don't see any way that's better than /media/cdrom, or what the mount > point's got to do wuth the representation on the user's desktop. OK I see where your coming from, though I would not say it's "broken", it is a change of behavior from what went before. I think FC3 had that behavior also and I expect RHEL5 will probably also have it. It was a design decision to reflect what new desktop users coming from Windows/Mac would expect. It would be nice if it could be configured to act differently, there may be a way to configure it to do what you expect. Regards, Paul