Re: Debian, FHS & /floppy

[Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk>]

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On Monday 21 January 2002 10:08 am, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> [2002.01.21.0229 +0100]:
...
>
> > Note too, from a system management perspective, use of /mnt gives a
> > single point of control for issues such as backups, which one presumably
> > would not make of temporarially mounted, removeable, storage.
>
...
>
> instead, i really think that we need a /media hierarchy. and from what i
> can tell, that's the current state on the fhs-discuss mailing list.
> /media for all kinds of removable media, a subdirectory for each
> therein, and /mnt as a temporary mount point, and nothing more!

I've been lurking on this thread for a while.  One possibility that hasn't 
been discussed is to assume mount points that can be automatically created 
(and destroyed) as either

if root then
 /var/mnt/$device
else
$HOME/mnt/$device
fi

or alternatively if the $HOME route is unacceptable then 
/var/mnt/$USER/$device




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  Alan - alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk
http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk
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