/cdrom & /cdrom0

[Keith O'Connell <kroc@blueyonder.co.uk>]

Hi,

I just installed testing from the beta 4 netinstall cd, on three machines and it is by far the best installation I have done, the hardware recognition made the whole thing a piece of cake.

I am curious about one thing though. The install creates two directories as mount points /floppy, /cdrom and cdrom0. Now I have read the FHS and I know that this kind of media should be now mounted in /media/floppy and /media/cdrom, and I see that Testing does create these mount points. 

Anyway I deleted what I took to be the surplus /floppy, /cdrom and /cdrom0 and removed references to them from the /etc/fstab.

I rebooted the machine and was a little surprised to see that although /floppy stayed gone, /cdrom and /cdrom0 had both returned. 

Why are they there? Why do they keep coming back after I zap them

Keith.

-- 
_________________________________________
  Keith O'Connell.
  Maidstone, Kent. (UK)
  kroc@blueyonder.co.uk