31 Aug
2021
31 Aug
'21
8:36 p.m.
Thierry de Coulon composed on 2021-08-31 05:04 (UTC-0400):
In Configure Desktop - Behaviour, one can define what
objects appear on the
desktop. There is one catch however:
More machines today use sd or micro-sd cards as mass
storage (Raspi is an
example, but my notebooks also do). If I choose to show mounted removable
media, I get my fstab mounted partitions on the desktop, and if I don't want
these, I can't get the dynamicaly mounted USB stick to show.
I doubt there is a way to make a difference between an
fstab
mounted "removable media" and a dynamicaly mounted one?
noauto
or not.
Give every removable (and non-removable) device a LABEL. For those LABELs found in
fstab, fstab will control the mounting behavior.
LABELs are much easier for the brain to manage than are UUIDs - LABELs are readily
remembered, and flexible in length. For each LABEL on a removable device, create a
mount point where you wish to access it, and a corresponding fstab entry. Any
without fstab entries are left to be handled same as non-LABELed, automatically
mounted in /run/media/username/*, or as otherwise directed by Configure Desktop →
Behaviour.
You can have multiple devices with the same LABEL, as long as you never try to
have twins/triplets/etc mounted at the same time by LABEL. Those with duplicates
can still be mounted, just not by LABEL. LABELs are readily changeable as long as
not mounted, or not mounted by LABEL. LABELs can be changed as often as
circumstances suggest, meaning if you want to create a clone of one to another,
one can be changed, then restored after unmounting the other, or using other than
by LABEL for mounting.
I have hundreds of installations. None of their fstabs have contained UUIDs for
Linux native filesystems since more than a decade ago.
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