Newer, friendlier Linux distributions such as Ubuntu must surely make it easy to use CDs, CompactFlash and SD card readers, USB drives, external hard disks and so on. But I'm old-fashioned, and like to do things the hard way, that is, edit /etc/fstab and run mount and umount manually so various devices end up at places I like in my directory.
The problem is hot-pluggable devices get assigned different names in the /dev directory all the time. So I followed the first part of this guide that assigns the same name (that you choose) to the same device every time. Once this is done, you can modify /etc/fstab in the usual way.
While there, you might want to use the "noatime" mount option, or at least "relatime". See this Slashdot article.
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