Re: Why /floppy -- why not /mnt/fd or something?

To: Peter Prohaska <reax@muc.de>
Cc: Debian-User <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: Why /floppy -- why not /mnt/fd or something?
From: dtm12@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Daniel Martin at cush)
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 19:05:42 -0500
Message-id: <[🔎] 87k9c2zjmx.fsf@cush>
In-reply-to: Peter Prohaska's message of "Thu, 15 Jan 1998 00:07:39 +0100 (MET)"
References: <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.96.980114234808.2024B-100000@polyx>

Peter Prohaska <reax@muc.de> writes:

> Hi all!
> 
> Please dont flamme me for that unimportant question.  But I was wondering,
> why `/dev/fd*'s are mounted at /floppy.
>  When reading fsstnd, you would expect them to be mounted in
> /mnt/someting.  Since /floppy is neither one of those un*x shorties nor
> used during installation I can't see why it lives on the root.

The floppy drive not used during installation?  Depends on how you
install.


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