reusing mount points

[Dj YB]

On Tuesday October 19 2010 03:13:16 Sonic wrote:
>   On 10/18/2010 08:21 PM, Dj YB wrote:
> > my question is, is there a way to force using the same mount point even
> > if the directory already exists?
> 
> You can add an entry in /etc/fstab file to specify a mount point.
> 
> Some possible complications here:
> 
> Do you want *one* particular device to be mounted at the same mount
> point all the time?
> Or do you want that *any* USB device be mounted at the same mount point?

any USB device.

> 
> If it's the former, add a line in /etc/fstab:
> /dev/disk/by-label/<label>    /media/usb-device           auto
> defaults,user,noauto    0 0

can this be used for automount? , usually the devices are disconnected.

> 
> If it's the latter, then if you have two USB devices plugged in, where
> should they be mounted?

Each USB device have unique partitions labels, so should not be a problem.

Thanks,
YB.