Fixed mount points for USB disks via HAL

I've been trying to figure this out on my own but I've been able to achieve my goal.
I want to setup my system so that it auto-mounts a specific hard drive and makes its contents available at a specific file system location.
I'd love to do that by identifying my hard drives by UUID or ID and assigning each one a different mount point.
I've tried the approach described in the ArchWiki:
File: /etc/hal/fdi/policy/20-$device_name.fdi
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
<device>
<match key="volume.uuid" string="$device_uuid">
<merge key="volume.label" type="string">$device_name</merge>
</match>
</device>
</deviceinfo>
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HAL#About_volumes_mount_points
and this one:
<device>
<match key="info.udi" string="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_E265_5E6A">
<merge key="volume.policy.desired_mount_point" type="string">ipod</merge>
<merge key="volume.policy.mount_option.iocharset=iso8859-15" type="bool">true</merge>
<merge key="volume.policy.mount_option.sync" type="bool">true</merge>
</match>
</device>
http://www.mythic-beasts.com/~mark/random/hal/
I restart HAL each time I change the configuration of the 20-$device_name.fdi or preferences.fdi (the second code example). Nothing at all can be found in /var/log/messages. It just silently refuses to mount the devices.
It works okay without these configurations and HAL auto-mount all these hard drives but only if I do not mess with the configs in /etc/hal/fdi/policy.
Can someone please explain what could be wrong here?

Dehir wrote:Im actually having similar difficulties. Have created etc/hal/fdi/policy/20-$device_name.fdi names for each device. But when im trying mount them from pcmanfm they get mounted every single time by random order, which is not that i want. Id prefer hal mounting over fstab but still want them to be mounted with specific names.
Yeah, that's the whole point - I want to have it done automatically with only one condition - fixed mount point names.

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Message was edited by: Sharib Tasneem

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Message was edited by: Sharib Tasneem

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mount_smbfs -W <WORKGROUPNAME> //<username>@<windoze-computername>/<nameofshare> /datapoint
you will be asked for <username>'s password
and the the remote data can be accessed using the dir /datapoint
Mac OS X (10.4.8)
Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Fixed mount points for USB disks via HAL

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