SuSE 9.3 cd/dvd mounting points

**cloverm** · 04-28-2005, 07:07 PM

It took me a long time to figure this one out, so I'm going to post it in case someone else runs into this problem.

PROBLEM: When you insert a CD or DVD, SuSE 9.3 mounts it in /media/<VOLUME_LABEL_OF_DISK>. This looks cool until you want to create a symlink to it. The mounting point changes every time you put a new disk in. This becomes a real problem when using wine, where you need a symlink to the mounted drive in the dosdevices folder.

SOLUTION: Save the following script as /usr/share/hal/fdi/95userpolicy/cddcd.fdi

Code:

&lt;?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot; encoding=&quot;ISO-8859-1&quot;?&gt; &lt;!-- -*- SGML -*- --&gt;

&lt;deviceinfo version=&quot;0.2&quot;&gt;
 &lt;device&gt;

 &lt;!-- Mount CD/DVD-rom drives as /media/dvd and CD/DVD Writers as /media/dvdrecorder
      instead of as /media/&lt;&lt;VOLUME_NAME&gt;&gt; --&gt;

  &lt;match key=&quot;@info.parent:storage.drive_type&quot; string=&quot;cdrom&quot;&gt;
     &lt;match key=&quot;@info.parent:storage.policy.desired_mount_point&quot; string=&quot;cdrom&quot;&gt;
       &lt;merge key=&quot;volume.policy.desired_mount_point&quot; type=&quot;string&quot;&gt;dvd&lt;/merge&gt;
     &lt;/match&gt;
     &lt;match key=&quot;@info.parent:storage.policy.desired_mount_point&quot; string=&quot;cdrecorder&quot;&gt;
       &lt;merge key=&quot;volume.policy.desired_mount_point&quot; type=&quot;string&quot;&gt;dvdrecorder&lt;/merge&gt;
     &lt;/match&gt;
   &lt;/match&gt;

 &lt;/device&gt;
&lt;/deviceinfo&gt;

Reboot your computer. After that your disk will always be mounted on /media/<TYPE_OF_YOUR_DRIVE>.