automatically mounted filesysystems in /media

Hello,

I just partitioned an external USB hard drive, creating one 40GB vfat
(/dev/sdb1) and on 40GB ext3 (/dev/sdb2) filesystem. When I'm logged
into KDE, the system automatically mounts the two filesystems as /
media/disk (/dev/sdb1) and /media/disk-1 (/dev/sdb2).

How do I change the names that these are automatically mounted with?
I realize I could manually mount them using the fstab, but this
external storage is attaching to a laptop and will not always be
connected.

The vfat filesystem (/dev/sdb1) mounts with permissions set to 755 and
the ext3 filesystem (/dev/sdb2) mounts with 777. I tried performing
"chmod 777 disk" as root to modify the vfat filesystems but it doesn't
change. Any thoughts on why these filesystems mount with different
permissions? Any ideas on how to change the permissions to 777 for
both filesystems?

It also seems that files I create within these filesystems have
different permissions; my umask is 0022. Files I create in the vfat
filesystem have permissions 755 and files I create in the ext3
filesystem have 644. Any thoughts on why this is?

Thanks!

Rob Ramsey

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