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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hi,</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Here's my situation. I have a laptop (running RedHat Enterprise Linux Client release 5) and whenever a usb drive is inserted, </FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I want it to be mounted on a generic mount point and not the drive's volume label, i.e I want my flash drive to be mounted at:</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> /media/usbdisk </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> NOT /media/LEXAR</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I was able to successfully do this by creating a .fdi file with rules to ignore the volume label. </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> However, when I insert another usb drive, it is mounted at /media/usbdisk_ and a third drive is mounted at /media/usbdisk__</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">and so on. I would like for the mount points to be /media/usbdisk1 , /media/usbdisk2, etc. but have not found out</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">how to do this.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">We have a desktop system running Redhat Enterprise WS 4 and it does mount the usb drives like I want and I've</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">looked at the .fdi files and could see any obvious differences.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">The desktop system hal version is 0.4.2-1.EL4 and the laptop hal version is 0.5.81-19.el5.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Any help is appreciated.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Thanks,</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Chris </FONT>
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