Re: /mnt

["Brian F. Kimball" <bfk@footbag.org>]

On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 11:06:12PM -0400, Steve Robbins wrote:

> On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Bas Zoetekouw wrote:

> > While we're at this FHS stuff, can anyone tell me why Debian (at least
> > potato) still has the /floppy and /cdrom mount points instead of
> > /mnt/floppy and /mnt/cdrom, as the FHS prescribes?
> 
> Er, what?  FHS has only this to say about /mnt:
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 3.7  /mnt : Mount point for temporarily mounted filesystems
[...]
> Nowhere does it say that the CD should be on /mnt/cdrom.

It does, however, say in the beginning of Section 3 ...

	Software should never create or require special files or
	subdirectories in the root directory. Other locations in the FHS
	hierarchy provide more than enough flexibility for any package.

And then lists the directories that should be in /:

	bin
	boot
	dev
	etc
	home
	lib
	mnt
	opt
	root
	sbin
	tmp
	usr
	var

IMHO (and IANADD) that means floppy, cdrom, and initrd don't belong
in the root directory.

	-Brian