Bug 458349

Summary: Removable devices are remembered by /dev/sdX paths, which with a larger number of devices change.
Product: [Applications] systemsettings Reporter: Ivan <sadilekivan>
Component: kcm_deviceautomounterAssignee: Torrie Fischer <tdfischer>
Status: REPORTED ---    
Severity: wishlist CC: plasma-bugs-null
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 5.25.4   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Arch Linux   
OS: Linux   
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Description Ivan 2022-08-26 17:40:42 UTC 
This behavior is quite problematic when using multiple drives.

For example I've got a single large drive I like to always have ready and mounted. I then get into trouble if my remembered drive was on /dev/sda, is absent, and then I try to insert a sdcard. The sdcard is quickly mounted as if it was the large drive (since it occupies the /dev/sda path), worse, sometimes I really prefer to mount them manually as read only when data recovering.

I would wish for a way to maybe just simply have the option to supply a custom device path. Then I could just copy paste the /dev/disk/by-uuid/***** corresponding path.