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Re: Policy for default mount points?



On Wed, Jul 28, 1999 at 04:05:28PM +0200, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
> Matthew Gregan <kinetik@ihug.co.nz> writes:
> 
> > Hello everyone.
> > 
> > The upstream package defaults to mounting the Psion at
> > '/psion.stand/mnt', and the package maintainers before me were
> > changing that to '/psion/mnt'. Since both of these are causing the
> > package to create a dir off of root, it breaks the FHS (and FSSTND as
> > well, I think), and lintian complains. I considered making it
> > '/mnt/psion', but '/mnt/ is described as a place for temporary mounts
> > anyway (plus lintian complains).
> 
> I would opt for /mnt/psion. The psion will be only mounted temporary,
> since its intended to be carried around, isn't it.

I think they mean you to use /mnt iteself temporarily. No directories should be
created under /mnt, although I do it. I hate having all those dirs in /. :)

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