On Wednesday 14 March 2007 05:06:54 Stevens wrote:
> Media devices mount by the volume info which renders any
> software invalid that expects to see a fixed mount point. Yes, someone
> here posted a link to a workaround but my question is: why in Hell did
> Suse allow this bastardized code to make it into production in the first
> place? It shouldn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that the system
> should provide static mount points for a device, not the &%$#@ volume info
> of the media in it. </soapbox off>

If you add the device to fstab, the media system will ignore the device and 
not try to mount it. Now, for that you need a device name, and you can get 
one using /dev/dsk/by-id I guess.

I don't think there is any functonality lost here.

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