I would like to change the names of the directories for my Windows partitions. At the moment, they are mounted under /windows/various letters.
What do I do first (or does it even matter?) Do I create the new directories using Konqueror and THEN edit fstab? Or do I edit fstab and THEN create the directories? Or can I just edit the names of the directories in fstab and then everything will magically appear?

Here is a snippet of my fstab (as you can see, 2 hard drives are here and very confusing):

/dev/sda1 /windows/C ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /windows/D ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/sda5 /windows/E ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/sda7 /windows/F ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/sda8 /windows/G ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/sda13 /windows/H ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/sdb5 /windows/I vfat users,gid=users,umask=0002,utf8=true 0 0
/dev/sdb6 /windows/J vfat users,gid=users,umask=0002,utf8=true 0 0
/dev/sdb7 /windows/K vfat users,gid=users,umask=0002,utf8=true 0 0

It doesn't really matter in which order that you do it. You can change /etc/fstab and then create the directories, or you can do it the other way around. In order to "see" the changes, you're going to have to unmount the present directories and mount the new ones. With a setup like that, you could achieve that with a reboot. Otherwise, you'll have to unmount each and remount. Either way will work.

If you're just looking to change the naming scheme, you could also leave things as they are and create a symbolic link to each from your new directory names.

Hi

It doesn't matter whether one edits fstab or creates dir first as long as both actions are completed before reboot OR executing the mount command. Though better to create dir and accordingly edit fstab in my opinion.

sda is the first disk and subsequent number denotes partition number similarly sdb is the second disk

Thanks! I'll create the dir first, and then edit accordingly, then.
I don't want to create symlinks because I still think windowsically.

Thought that you'd do it that way. It'll work. By the way, just FYI, a symlink can be thought of like a "shortcut to"