I would like to suggest a new feature for Dolphin: allowing a fixed mountpoint for volumes.

Reason: At work I use an external USB disk with several partitions that hold virtual machines. VMWare server 2 requires me to create data stores and then to add virtual machines to the repository. If I mount the partitions in a different order than the day before, the data store cannot be found and I need to start all over again.

For now I have fixed it with fstab entries by UUID, but it would be so much simpler if Dolphin allowed me to say 'mount this volume always on /media/disk-1'. Or whatever....

Any chance for that, devs? Is it at all feasible (or does HAL get in the way here)?

I think this is a solid issue. Mounting devices is not only a dolphin thing - consider the device notifier plasmoid. Perhaps this could be implemented in solid and configured via system settings.

Cheers, m.

You can easily get a fixed mount point by setting the filesystem label. You need to use a filesystem-specific tool for that, e.g. e2label, reiserfstune, ntfslabel. So if you set it to "SomeDisk" it should always be mounted under /media/SomeDisk.

Nice find, thanks, will try it.

Still, would be cool if I could set it directly via a KDE utility though...