opensuse 11.2
kde 4.4.2
I have this 750 gb Seagate FreeMedia USB
drive, which is always connected to the system.
Every time I restart the computer I get a new mount point in /media e.g.
/media/FreeAgent Drive-7
/media/FreeAgent Drive-8
The question is how to get one ‘fixed’ mount point for this drive, regardless of how often I restart or re-plugin the device. And why do this old unused mount points not disappear when the system shuts down or the drive is unplugged?
Db
If you label the partitions, f.e. FreeAgent-1 and FreeAgent-2, they would always be mounted in /media/labelname.
You could also tell the Yast partitioner to mount the device at boot. That would bring trouble though if you disconnect the drive and reboot.
I think it has allready a label:* FreeAgent Drive*. Else it would have been mounted disk.
It is mounted on* -1*,* -2 ,etc. because you do not unmount it properly (by clicking in the device notifier on the right place).
Thus it will use the -1 ,etc because the old mount point still exists and is still registered in the files .hal-mtab and .hal-mtab-lock*.
To redress this, umount properly and with the device removed clean up in /media (remove all* FeeAgent Drive** files and both* .hal-mtab** files). After this always umount properly to avoid the same thing.
But, when you have the device allways in the system, make an entry in /etc/fstab for it. Then it will be mounted properly at boot and be unmounted properly at system shutdown. You are then also not restricted to mounting in* /media/…*, but can mount where you want (but please create the mountpoint first and make the user that wants to use it and it group owner with chmod user:group).