Re: PROPOSAL for FHS revised : Mount points for CDs, floppies and alien OS partitions.]
On Thu, Jun 22, Alan Cox wrote:
> > No, the majority doesn't have cdrom in /mnt. Red Hat has it, and Red Hat
> > has only the majority in USA. In Europe, it is SuSE Linux, in Asia
> > TurboLinux.
>
> And no doubt Debian doesnt exist because nobody sells it.
Ok, you won: One more large distribution which uses /cdrom and
not /mnt/cdrom. (Or does debian changed this in the last time ?)
>
> It also isnt a productive discussion for a very important reason. The question
> isnt 'which is most common' its 'which existing working solution is best'
>
> > have it ? /mnt has a special meaning in the Unix world since years.
> > Yes, FHS should define the future, but not break with the past.
> > And if FHS should be for all Unix, we also need to take care for
> > the other Unix, not only some few Linux distributions.
>
> Then lets defer this to the FHS to standardise.
Maybe you should read the Subject ? This was a proposal for FHS,
not LSB. Don't know who and why this thread was crossposted to the
LSB list.
Thorsten
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