Re: Having Konqueror/kDesktop displaying media volume label

On Wednesday 17 April 2002 14:21, David Golden wrote:
> On Wednesday 17 April 2002 15:25, Michel Alexandre Salim wrote:
..

> /mnt/cdrom is the disk currently in the first cdrom drive,
> /mnt/named/Pants is a disk currently attached to the system somehow,
> anyhow, called "Pants".

I do like this. I'm assuming that if the CD named "Pants" resides in the 
first cdrom drive, then it's equally accessible through both paths. 

It MIGHT be considered an underlying OS problem, but there's nothing to 
prevent KDE from enhancing what the OS gives you. 
In the short term, I just tried it manually and it can be scripted if you 
really wanted to do this today... It's not without a minor problem (addressed 
below). To do it, mounted as normal, then check the volume label with mlabel. 
If there's no label, then end. Otherwise, create a new directory under 
/mnt/named/ using the label that was extracted. Then call mount again, 
mounting it into the new location. To unmount, check the volume label. If a 
label is found then unmount /mnt/named/label and delete the directory, 
otherwise skip those two steps. Then unmount the device. Create a script for 
each removable device (or one parameterized script). Then create a .kdelnk 
file for each device and use your icons instead of those provided by KDE.

Obviously this is something you'd want to have done more...ah... 
"professionally," either by KDE or by mount, but what's being asked is not 
terribly difficult. The only problem is what to do with the dynamically 
created directory in the event of a crash. I'd say, log the new directory 
name somewhere, and provide a script to read this log on startup, deleting 
any directories it finds there, then deleting the log entries.

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