Random Wisdom

By default, GNOME labels the drives by their sizes. The following *fdi scipt for HAL makes is possible to automount the volumes discovered at boot-time. The volumes are mounted and labeled according to their Volume Label under /media. So, here it is:

[darkknight@darkworld ~]$ cat storage-fixed.fdi
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <!-- -*- SGML -*- -->

<deviceinfo version="0.2">
 <device>
     <match key="volume.partition.msdos_part_table_type" int="0x07">
         <merge key="volume.policy.should_mount" type="bool">true</merge>
         <merge key="volume.policy.mount_option.pamconsole" type="bool">true</merge>
         <merge key="volume.policy.mount_option.noauto" type="bool">false</merge>
         <merge key="volume.policy.mount_option.exec" type="bool">false</merge>
         <merge key="volume.policy.mount_option.umask=022" type="bool">true</merge>
         <merge key="volume.policy.mount_option.ro" type="bool">true</merge>
     </match>
 </device>

 <device>
     <match key="volume.partition.msdos_part_table_type" int="0x0b">
         <merge key="volume.policy.should_mount" type="bool">true</merge>
         <merge key="volume.policy.mount_option.pamconsole" type="bool">true</merge>
         <merge key="volume.policy.mount_option.noauto" type="bool">false</merge>
         <merge key="volume.policy.mount_option.exec" type="bool">true</merge>
         <merge key="volume.policy.mount_option.umask=000" type="bool">true</merge>
         <merge key="volume.policy.mount_option.rw" type="bool">true</merge>
     </match>
 </device>

 <device>
     <match key="storage.hotpluggable" bool="false">
         <match key="storage.removable" bool="false">
             <merge key="storage.policy.should_mount" type="bool">true</merge>
         </match>
     </match>
 </device>
</deviceinfo>
[darkknight@darkworld ~]$

The file should be placed under /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/

I know for sure that the NTFS part works, and someone with FAT32 volumes told me that FAT32 automount works as well.

It is also available from here.