On Tue, Sep 21, 1999 at 08:21:08AM -0500, Brian Servis wrote:
> http://www.pathname.com/fhs/ for more info. For temporary mounts the FHS
> suggest /mnt, regardless of type, local or nfs. But remember that NFS
Automounters tend to use /amd or /a for their tempory mounts (mainly to
stay out of the way of users).
> mounts are useful for mounting /home, /usr, /usr/local, etc. for large
> distributed networks.
This is the important thing - under Unix you normally have one big
filesystem which may be split across many drives. When referring to a
file you don't have (or generally want) to think about which drive it
lives on, just where it fits into the filesystem.
--
Mark Brown mailto:broonie@tardis.ed.ac.uk (Trying to avoid grumpiness)
http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/
EUFS http://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/
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