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From: "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Short name for USB
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2023 18:54:34 +0100
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On 2023-02-09 16:39, db wrote:
> On 09.02.2023 11.55, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>> On 2023-02-09 11:28, db wrote:
>>> When I want to operate on a USB, it has a long unwieldy
>>> name. How do I give it a short name? I have forgotten
>>> how to do it. Alias? Or what?
>>
>> USB what? A keyboard? A mouse? A scanner? A printer? A modem?
>>
>   Sigh... a USB stick, which appears e.g. as "/media/.../KINGSTON".
> How do I give it a shorter name?

It depends on what distro you are using.

For example, on openSUSE, the default is "/run/media/<user>/name". You 
can change it to /media/name by creating file 
/etc/udev/rules.d/99-correct-media-mount-point.rules with line (single 
line):

ENV{ID_FS_USAGE}=="filesystem|other|crypto", 
ENV{UDISKS_FILESYSTEM_SHARED}="1"

and run and "udevadm control --reload"

Make sure that /media does exist in advance.


Other distros may have other tricks.

-- 
Cheers,
        Carlos E.R.