Re: Debian, FHS & /floppy

[Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com>]

martin f krafft wrote:
> 
> also sprach Romuald DELAVERGNE <delavergne@availix.fr> [2002.01.16.1837 +0100]:
> > Le 2002.01.16 16:17, martin f krafft a écrit :
> > > exaclty. but say you have /mnt/cdrom and /mnt/floppy, and both mounted,
> > > and now you want to make proper use of what /mnt is, and you mount
> > > another partition on /mnt. byebye cdrom, byebye floppy.
> >
> > Yes I know. I just use '/mnt' as a directory which contains directories for
> > all mountable peripherals. Before, I haved symbolic links in '/' to these
> > directories. I removed them to  make '/' cleaner.
> 
> which is exactly the point, and which violates the FHS:
> 
> section 3.11: "/mnt : Mount point for a temporarily mounted filesystem"
>                                       ^
> 
> it is the mount point for *a* filesystem, not a directory to hold mount
> points for a number of filesystems.

  I think this point is well understood by all the parties but:

  if you have more then one temporarily mounted filesystem, where do you
mount it? It does not make sense to have a mount point for one
filesystem but not for few of them.

	erik