changing the mountpoint for CD-ROM|RW

[Bram Mertens <bram-mertens@linux.be>]

Hi

After installing debian sarge (net install) and upgrading to testing my
CD-ROM and CD-writer were correctly added to /etc/fstab:
/dev/hdc        /media/cdrom0   iso9660 ro,user,noauto  0       0
/dev/hdd        /media/cdrom1   iso9660 ro,user,noauto  0       0

However in /media there was only a 'corrupted' symlink /media/cdrom
to /media/cdrom0. /media/cdrom0 and /media/cdrom1 didn't exist.
I added these directories manually (as root) so /media/ now looks like:
m8ram@imladris:~$ ls -lh /media/  
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root  6 2004-12-17 20:12 cdrom -> cdrom0
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 48 2004-12-30 19:35 cdrom0
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 48 2004-12-30 19:35 cdrom1
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root  7 2004-12-17 20:12 floppy -> floppy0
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 48 2004-12-17 20:12 floppy0

I can mount CD's with mount /media/cdrom but I have to remember to use
ls -lh /media/cdrom0 to display the CD's contents because ls
-lh /media/cdrom simply shows:
m8ram@imladris:~$ ls -lh /media/cdrom
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 6 2004-12-17 20:12 /media/cdrom -> cdrom0

Is there a reason why I shouldn't remove the symlink /media/cdrom so I
can edit the dirs in /media to:
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 48 2004-12-30 19:35 cdrom
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 48 2004-12-30 19:35 cdwriter

Obviously I would have to edit /etc/fstab to:
/dev/hdc        /media/cdrom   iso9660 ro,user,noauto  0       0
/dev/hdd        /media/cdwriter   iso9660 ro,user,noauto  0       0

Are there apps that look for /media/cdrom(0|1) that would break after
these changes?

TIA

Bram
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