Creating Your Own Mount Point for USB Drive

Question

I have an external USB drive which is always plugged in. I have modified fstab and created a folder in media so that the drive is mounted at media/drive_name. However, is automount is enabled, every time I restart the system the drive get remounted in media/user_name/drive name. I would like to keep automount on for other devices, but for this specific one have my own mount point. Is there any way to do this?

Answer 1

Try this:

1. Make your script: make a new text document and put this in:

   #!/bin/sh  
   mkdir -p /path/to/custom-mount  
   sudo umount /dev/sdaX ((This is the drive you want to mount in the custom location))  
   sudo mount -t filesystem-type -o rw /dev/sdaX /path/to/custom-mount  
   

2. Put this script under /etc/init.d.

3. Make it executable by running sudo chmod -x /etc/init.d/script-name.
4. Run update-rc.d script-name defaults.

Hopefully, this will unmount your drive and then remount it under the folder you want.