Re: change removable media name

[Cosimo Cecchi <cosimoc gnome org>]

On Thu, 2011-10-20 at 22:40 +0100, e-letter wrote:
> Readers,
> 
>  When connecting a portable hard disk drive via usb,  the drive always appears
>  in the /media partition only after starting the nautilus file manager, will a
>  strange name e.g. a random selection of text such as 'tea111'. The drive never
>  appears in the gnome-terminal using the command 'ls /media', until nautilus is
>  started.
> 
>  Why is the happening and how to change? Before using mandriva 20102, the
>  mounted drive name was something like 'disk' and could be accessed via the
>  terminal without starting nautilus.

Hi,

which version of Nautilus and GNOME are you using? Starting with
Nautilus 3.0, the automatic mounting of removable devices has moved away
from Nautilus into gnome-settings-daemon and gnome-shell, and should be
completely transparent (unless you disabled automatic mounting using the
org.gnome.desktop.media-handling automount GSettings key).

In a typical GNOME 2 environment Nautilus is expected to be always
running in the background managing the desktop, and it will
automatically mount hotplugged removable media in a similar way. Maybe
you're running GNOME 2 and you disabled Nautilus' desktop handling?

Cosimo