GNOME - mount CD/DVD to fixed point

Richard Shaw hobbes1069 at gmail.com
Mon Jan 24 16:30:24 UTC 2011


On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 10:19 AM, David Jansen
<jansen at strw.leidenuniv.nl> wrote:
>> is possible in GNOME 2.30/2.32 (on actual F13/F14) for some users
> mount
>> CD/DVD media not to "/media/VolName/", but to fixed mountpoint - e.g.
>> media pushed to /dev/sr0 mount to /media/cd0 or to ~/Desktop/CD0
> e.t.c.?
>> Or mount as currently GNOME does, but in adition automatically create
>> fixed symlink to created mountpoint (and remove it after is media
> unmounted].
>
> This used to be possible with the gnome-mount command, which could mount
> a device from the commandline, or change the defaults, like setting a
> fixed mountpoint under /media. The program seems to be missing from
> current Fedora releases.

I think this is been replaced (or renamed?) to gvfs-mount.

Richard


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